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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
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कर्मण्येवाधिकारस्ते
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पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान् |
वेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम् ||१८-२१||
pṛthaktvena tu yajjñānaṃ nānābhāvānpṛthagvidhān . vetti sarveṣu bhūteṣu tajjñānaṃ viddhi rājasam ||18-21||
But that knowledge which sees in all beings various entities of distinct kinds as different from one another know thou that knowledge to be Rajasic.
In simple words
Krishna describes passionate knowledge: "The knowledge that looks at all the different beings and sees only separate, disconnected entities — each one fundamentally different from the others — that knowledge is passionate."
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