# Bhagavad Gita 14.8

**Canonical reference:** `gita.14.8`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

तमस्त्वज्ञानजं विद्धि मोहनं सर्वदेहिनाम्।
प्रमादालस्यनिद्राभिस्तन्निबध्नाति भारत ॥

## IAST

tamastvajñānajaṃ viddhi mohanaṃ sarvadehinām
pramādālasyanidrābhistannibadhnāti bhārata

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

Darkness (you must) know to be born of ignorance it deludes all embodied (selfs). And that O descendant of Bharata! binds down (the self) with heedlessness indolence and sleep.

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