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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17.19

mūḍha-grāheṇātmano yat
pīḍayā kriyate tapaḥ
parasyotsādanārthaḿ vā
tat tāmasam udāhṛtam

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Penance performed out of foolishness, with self-torture or to destroy or injure others, is said to be in the mode of ignorance.

Author Name:-Sri Ramanuja

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Sri Ramanuja

17.19 Deluded persons are those who lack correct understanding. That austerity which is practised from deluded notion, viz., from the obstinate determination by deluded persons, by self-torture regardless of one’s own capacity or which is performed for causing sufferings to others — that is said to be Tamasika.

Author Name:-Sri Adi Shankaracharya

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Sri Adi Shankaracharya

17.19 Yat, that; tapah, austerity; which is kriyate, under-taken; mudha-grahena, with a foolish intent, with a conviction arising out of non-discriminating; pidaya, causing pain; atmanah, to oneself (to one’s body etc.); va, or; utsadanartham, for the destruction; parasya, of another; tat, that; is udahrtam, said to be; an austerity tamasam, born of tamas. Now the classification of charity is being spoken of:

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Slogam 19

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 17.19

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