Bhagavad Gita Bhasya (Gambhirananada)

were all, which is irrational, not concern with truth
and triivial.
English Translation of Sri Sankaracharya's Sanskrit
Commentary - Swami Gambhirananda
18.22 But tat, that knowledge; is udahrtam, said to
be; tamasam, born of tamas; yat, which is; saktam,
confined; ekasmin, to one; karye, from, to one body
or to an external image etc., krtsnavat, as though it
were all, as though it comprehended everything,
thinking, 'The Self, or God, is only this much; there
is nothing beyond it,'-as the naked Jainas hold that
the soul conforms to and has the size of the body,
or (as others hold) that God is merely a stone or
wood-, remaining confined thus to one form;
ahaitukam, which is irrational, bereft of logic; atattvarthavat,
not concerned with truth-tattvartha,
truth, means some-thing just as it is; that
(knowledge) which has this (truth) as its object of
comprehension is tattvarthavat; that without this is
; a-tattvarthavat-; and which, on account of the
very fact of its being irrational, is alpam, trivial,
because it is concerned with trifles or is productive
of little result. This kind of knowledge is indeed
found in non-discriminating creatures in whom
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