Canto 11: General HistoryChapter 25: The Three Modes of Nature and Beyond

Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 11.25.18

sīdac cittaḿ vilīyeta

cetaso grahaṇe 'kṣamam

mano naṣṭaḿ tamo glānis

tamas tad upadhāraya

SYNONYMS

sīdat — failing; cittam — the higher faculties of consciousness; vilīyeta — become dissolved; cetasaḥ — awareness; grahaṇein controlling; akṣamam — incapable; manaḥ — the mind; naṣṭam — ruined; tamaḥ — ignorance; glāniḥ — depression; tamaḥ — the mode of ignorance; tat — that; upadhāraya — you should understand.

TRANSLATION

When one's higher awareness fails and finally disappears and one is thus unable to concentrate his attention, his mind is ruined and manifests ignorance and depression. You should understand this situation to be the predominance of the mode of ignorance.

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