The constancy by which a man of poor wits does not let go of sleep, fear, grief, despondency, and intoxication, that is, indulgence in objects, but, holding himself in high esteem and as if drunk, clings to them, keeping them always in mind as if they were things to be done; that constancy is held to be of tamas. The threefold division of acts and of doers, by the difference of the qualities, has been told. Now the threefold division of fruit, of happiness, is told.

The constancy by which a man of poor wits does not let go of, holds, the workings of mind, breath, and the rest set going with an eye to sleep, to slumber, and to intoxication, the intoxication born of the experience of objects; and the words 'fear', 'grief', and 'despondency' bear on the objects that give fear, grief, and the rest; the constancy by which he holds the workings of mind, breath, and the rest that are their means; that constancy is 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.