Action that is undertaken without regard to the consequence, the consequence being the thing that comes after; without regard to loss, the loss of power or wealth that the doing of it would bring; without regard to injury, the harm to living beings; and without regard to one's own capacity, the self-confidence 'I am able to finish this action'; action begun without regard to these, from consequence down to capacity, out of delusion, out of want of discernment, that action is declared to be of tamas, born of darkness. Now the kinds of doer are stated.

The consequence is the pain that follows on, fastening to the action once done; loss is the destruction of substance in the doing of the action; injury there is the paining of living beings; one's own capacity is the self's power to bring the action to completion; without regarding, without considering, these, from consequence down to capacity, the action that is begun, that is done, out of delusion, out of the ignorance of the supreme Person's agency, that is called tamasic.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.