But that knowledge which clings to one single effect, as if it were the whole, without reason, without foundation in truth and narrow, that is declared to be TAMASIC (Dull) .

yat = that which; tu = but; kṛtsnavat = as all in all; ekasmin = in one; kārye = work; saktaṃ = attached; ahaitukaṃ = without cause; atattvārthavat = without knowledge of reality; alpaṃ = very meager; ca = and; tat = that; tāmasaṃ = in the mode of darkness; udāhṛtaṃ = is said to be.;