yat tu kritsnavad ekasmin karye saktam ahaitukam atattvarthavad alpam ca tat tamasam udahritam
That knowledge which clings to one effect as if it were the whole, which is without rational basis, which does not grasp reality as it is, and which is trivial — such knowledge is declared to be tamasic.
- •Tamasic knowledge clings to a single partial view as total truth
- •It lacks rational grounding and fails to perceive the true nature of reality
- •This kind of knowledge is narrow, irrational, and spiritually regressive