yadagre cānubandhe ca sukhaṁ mohanamātmanaḥ | nidrālasyapramādotthaṁ tattāmasamudāhṛtam || The happiness which, both during its enjoyment and in its consequence, only causes delusion to the jiva, and the happiness obtained from sleep, laziness, and negligence, is called tamas happiness. Nidrālasyapramādottham. When attachment increases excessively, it takes the form of tamogun. This is what is called delusion and foolishness. Because of this foolishness, a person feels like sleeping excessively. A person who sleeps excessively does not get deep sleep. Due to lack of deep sleep, the mind, senses, and body do not feel as refreshed as they should. Drowsiness persists, and dreams are also more frequent. A tamas person wastes a lot of time in drowsiness and sleep. But a tamas person gets happiness only from this. When tamogun increases excessively, a person's tendencies become heavy. Therefore, even if an essential task comes up, they think, 'We will do it later, let's rest now.' In this way, they find great interest and pleasure in a state of laziness. But by remaining idle, laxity creeps into their senses, inner self, and body, and useless thoughts of the world keep occurring in the mind. Unrest, grief, despair, anxiety, and sorrow never leave the mind. When tamogun increases even more than this, a person starts behaving with negligence. Negligence is of two types: inactive negligence and active negligence. Not doing even the necessary tasks for home, family, body, etc., and sitting idle is inactive negligence. Although laziness and inactive negligence appear similar, there is a slight difference between them. In that, it is not that they have become heavy. Sometimes, what happens is the body becomes heavy, the senses and inner self do not think of anything, and it becomes like drowsiness, so that is also called negligence. And sitting idle means abandoning some duty. So, two reasons should be given for that. He does not find pleasure in duty, and he finds pleasure only if he leaves the duty aside. He enjoys sitting idle. So, that is inactive negligence and active negligence. That happiness of sattvagun is said to be born of the purity of one's own intellect. The happiness of rajogun is born of the contact of the senses with their objects. Of the objects. In this, in tamogun, nothing. Born of sleep, laziness, and negligence. Like that. From sleep, meaning by lying down. It is said here, isn't it, that he does not get much sleep. He just lies down. What is drowsiness? Drowsiness means neither complete wakefulness nor complete deep sleep. The state in between. That is called drowsiness. The mind is awake and the body is lying down. Or it has become heavy. So, that is called drowsiness. This drowsiness, the first stage of falling asleep, is called drowsiness. When one is about to fall asleep, how one dozes, the eyes become heavy, all that is called drowsiness. Laziness means just lying down. Becoming a heap, that is laziness. Negligence is of two types: inactive negligence and active negligence. Not doing even the necessary tasks for home, family, body, etc., and sitting idle is inactive negligence. Although laziness and inactive negligence appear similar, there is a slight difference between them. In laziness, the tendencies become heavy and that gives happiness, and in inactive negligence, happiness is derived from abandoning duties and responsibilities. And useless action, how to escape from responsibility, how to find loopholes in it, there is a kind of pleasure in that. A sattva-dominant person finds pleasure in completing a task. And a tamas-dominant person finds pleasure in how to escape from work. So, that is negligence. How to escape from responsibility, dump it on someone else, make excuses. Evader, what is an evader called? Evader. So many excuses, and such people have a thousand excuses. Their job is just that, they have kept excuses ready. To escape from it, how many excuses they show. Although laziness and inactive negligence appear similar, there is a slight difference between them. In laziness, happiness is derived from the tendencies becoming heavy, and in inactive negligence, happiness is derived from abandoning duties and responsibilities. And engaging in useless actions like seeing, hearing, thinking, etc., getting into bad habits like smoking beedi, cigarettes, drinking alcohol, bhang bhang An intoxicating drink produced from cannabis leaves. Tap to open in glossary → In short, not doing productive activity. Running away from productive activity. If it is unproductive, if it is meaningless, they keep doing such activity. They keep playing cards. So, they indulge in this addiction. Sitting and talking, all that is considered part of it. Tamas people find great interest and pleasure in such negligent activities. From such sinful negligence, they attain terrible hell. When the tamas-dominant negligent tendency arises, it covers the discriminating knowledge of the sattva-dominant person. It suppresses the discriminating tendency. Sattvagun and tamogun are completely opposite to each other. Rajogun is in between the two. Doing the opposite of whatever is to be done in sattvagun is called tamogun. When the tamas-dominant negligent tendency arises, it covers the discriminating knowledge of the sattva-dominant person. It suppresses the discriminating tendency. And when tamas-dominant sleep and laziness tendencies arise, they cover the light of sattvagun. When discriminating knowledge is covered, negligence occurs, while when light is covered, laziness and sleep occur. If freshness is lost, then laziness and sleep. And if discrimination is lost, then negligence comes. Freshness and discrimination are both functions of sattvagun. And these two are functions of tamogun. Therefore, tamogun has the maximum conflict with sattvagun. It is not that sattvagun has the maximum conflict only with tamogun; it has it with both. If sattvagun wants to maintain its position, it has to fight with rajogun as well and with tamogun as well. Even in that, it has to fight the most with rajogun. When tamas-dominant sleep and laziness tendencies arise, they cover the light of sattvagun. When discriminating knowledge is covered, negligence occurs, while when light is covered, laziness and sleep occur. A tamas person gets happiness from all three: sleep, laziness, and negligence, or rather, say that a tamas person gets happiness through these three. He becomes happy by practicing them. Therefore, they practice sleep for tamas happiness, for five hours, six hours, like we all do Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Hari Hari An avatãr of Bhagvãn. He incarnated in His four-armed svarup to save an elephant from being killed by a crocodile. He cut off the crocodile’s head with His chakra. Tap to open in glossary → Therefore, tamas happiness is shown to be produced from these three. AI translation of the Gujarati transcript above, produced in the same pass that transcribed the audio, one English segment per Gujarati segment. Devotional and technical terms with no precise English equivalent (kirtan, satsang, vasana, samskara, and similar) are kept as their plain transliteration rather than force-translated. Not human-proofread., AI-translated, unverified · Source details