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BG 18.32

अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता
सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी

adharmaṃ dharmam iti yā
manyate tamasāvṛtā
sarvārthān viparītāṃś ca
buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī

SYNONYMS

adharmam: irreligion | dharmam: religion | iti: thus | : which | manyate: thinks | tamasā: by illusion | āvṛtā: covered | sarva-arthān: all things | viparītān: the wrong direction | ca: also | buddhiḥ: intelligence | sa: that | pārtha: O son of Pṛthā | tāmasī: the mode of ignorance. |

TRANSLATION

That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Pārtha, is in the mode of ignorance.