Bhagavad Gita 18.28
अयुक्तः प्राकृतः स्तब्धः शठो नैष्कृतिकोऽलसः । विषादी दीर्घसूत्री च कर्ता तामस उच्यते ॥
ayuktaḥ prākṛtaḥ stabdhaḥ śaṭho naiṣkṛtiko 'lasaḥ / viṣādī dīrgha-sūtrī ca kartā tāmasa ucyate
Translation
Unsteady, vulgar, stubborn, deceitful, malicious, lazy, despondent, and a procrastinator, such a doer is called of the dark kind.
Reflection
Which one of the eight signs are you most tempted to defend rather than examine?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
Tamasika karta. Eight attributes. Ayukta, ungathered, no inner discipline. Prakrita, coarse, unrefined. Stabdha, stiff, unteachable. Shatha, dishonest. Naishkritika, cruel, willing to harm to win. Alasa, lazy. Vishadi, given to despondency. Dirgha-sutri, the procrastinator who turns short tasks into long ones. Notice that none of these are about external poverty or low station. They are about interior conditions. A man of high office can score every line of this list. A poor laborer might score none. The diagnostic is moral and psychological, not socioeconomic. The cure is also interior, the slow turning toward dhriti, satya, and the disciplines named in chapter seventeen.