tat–That; yat tu–which; saktam–is attached; ekasmin kārye–to the peripheral only, such as the body; kṛtsnavat–as everything; ahaitukam–(and which is) irrational; atattva-arthavat–not seeking the truth—without spiritual or scriptural conception; alpam cha–and trivial; udāhṛtam–is said to be; tāmasam–knowledge of the nature of ignorance. [22]

And that ideology which is stubbornly attached to the peripheral only, considering it to be all-in-all, without spiritual or scriptural conception, without seeking the truth, and based on trivialities alone, is said to be knowledge of the (animalistic) nature of ignorance.