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TEXT 22 yat tu krtsna-vad ekasmin
SYNONYMS  yat--that
which; tu--but; krtsna-vat--all in all; ekasmin--in
one; karye--work; saktam--attached; ahaitukam--without
cause; atattva-artha-vat--without reality; alpam--very meager;
ca--and; tat--that; tamasam--in the mode of darkness;
udahrtam--is spoken.
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.
PURPORT 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. He is not concerned
about acting in terms of the directions of scripture. For him God is money,
and knowledge means the satisfaction of bodily demands. Such knowledge
has no connection with the Absolute Truth. It is more or less like the
knowledge of the ordinary animals: the knowledge of eating, sleeping, defending
and mating. Such knowledge is described here as the product of the mode
of darkness. In other words, knowledge concerning the spirit soul beyond
this body is called knowledge in the mode of goodness, and knowledge producing
many theories and doctrines by dint of mundane logic and mental speculation
is the product of the mode of passion, and knowledge concerned with only
keeping the body comfortable is said to be in the mode of ignorance.
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