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TEXT 28 ayuktah prakrtah stabdhah
SYNONYMS  ayuktah--without
reference to scriptural injunctions; prakrtah--materialistic; stabdhah--obstinate;
sathah--deceitful; naiskrtikah--expert in insulting others;
alasah--lazy; visadi--morose; dirgha-sutri--procrastinating;
ca--also; karta--worker; tamasah--in the mode of ignorance;
ucyate--is said to be.
TRANSLATION And that
worker who is always engaged in work against the injunction of the scripture,
who is materialistic, obstinate, cheating and expert in insulting others,
who is lazy, always morose and procrastinating, is a worker in the mode
of ignorance.
PURPORT In the scriptural
injunctions we find what sort of work should be performed and what sort
of work should not be performed. Those who do not care for those injunctions
engage in work not to be done, and such persons are generally materialistic.
They work according to the modes of nature, not according to the injunctions
of the scripture. Such workers are not very gentle, and generally they
are always cunning and expert in insulting others. They are very lazy;
even though they have some duty, they do not do it properly, and they put
it aside to be done later on. Therefore they appear to be morose. They
procrastinate; anything which can be done in an hour they drag on for years.
Such workers are situated in the mode of ignorance.
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