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Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 18 Text 22
yat tu krtsna-vad ekasmin
karye saktam ahaitukam
atattvartha-vad alpam ca
tat tamasam udahrtam

yat--that which; tu--but; krtsna-vat--as all in all; ekasmin--in one; karye--work; saktam--attached; ahaitukam--without cause; atattva-artha-vat--without knowledge of reality; alpam--very meager; ca--and; tat--that; tamasam--in the mode of darkness; udahrtam--is said to be.

TRANSLATION

And that knowledge by which one is attached to one kind of work as the all in all, without knowledge of the truth, and which is very meager, is said to be in the mode of darkness.

JOURNAL:

Srila Prqabhupada opens his purport with this statement: The "knowledge" of the common man is always in the mode of darkness or ignorance because every living entity in conditional life is born into the mode of ignorance. One who does not develop knowledge through the authorities or scriptural injunctions has knowledge that is limited to the body.