Goodness (sattva) attaches one to happiness, passion (rajas) to action (karma), O descendant of Bharata (Bhārata). But darkness (tamas), having veiled knowledge (jñāna), attaches one to negligence indeed.
Lucidity addicts one to joy, and passion to actions, but dark inertia obscures knowledge and addicts one to negligence.
(9) Goodness causes [a man] to cling to joy, Passion to works; but Darkness, stifling wisdom, attaches to fecklessness.
14.9 O scion of the Bhārata dynasty, sattva attaches one to happiness, rajas to action, while tamas, covering up knowledge, leads to inadvertence also.
14.9 Sattva generates attachment to pleasure, Rajas to action, O Arjuna. But Tamas, veiling knowledge, generates attachment to negligence.
14.9 Sattva attaches to happiness, Rajas to action, O Arjuna, while Tamas verily shrouding knowledge attaches to heedlessness.