# Bg. 18.32 > अधर्मं धर्ममिति या मन्यते तमसावृता । > सर्वार्थान्विपरीतांश्च बुद्धिः सा पार्थ तामसी ॥३२॥ ## Text > adharmaṁ dharmam iti yā > manyate tamasāvṛtā > sarvārthān viparītāṁś ca > buddhiḥ sā pārtha tāmasī ## Synonyms *adharmam*—irreligion; *dharmam*—religion; *iti*—thus; *yā*—which; *manyate*—thinks; *tamasā*—by illusion; *āvṛtā*—covered; *sarva*-*arthān*—all things; *viparītān*—the wrong direction; *ca*—also; *buddhiḥ*—intelligence; *sa*—that; *pārtha*—O son of Pṛthā; *tāmasī*—the mode of ignorance. ## Translation **That understanding which considers irreligion to be religion and religion to be irreligion, under the spell of illusion and darkness, and strives always in the wrong direction, O Pārtha, is in the mode of ignorance.**