दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव च।अज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम्॥
dambho darpo ’bhimānaś ca krodhaḥ pāruṣyam eva caajñānaṃ cābhijātasya pārtha sampadam āsurīm
Word by word
The verse says
Pretending, arrogance, conceit, anger, harshness, not knowing - these belong to a person born into the demonic share, Arjuna.
In plain words
Six words, against twenty-six. The short list is the ugly one, and that is not an accident.
Good comes in many shapes. This does not. Pretence, swagger, conceit, temper, hardness - and the blindness underneath all five.
Notice which one comes last. Ajñāna, not knowing. It is placed at the end of the list as the thing the other five are standing on.
Where you've felt this · at work
Your manager announces a change that everybody in the room can see will not work. Two people say so, carefully. He explains to them why they have misunderstood, at length, and in front of everyone. The plan goes ahead and fails in about six weeks. He was not lying to anybody that morning. He genuinely could not hear it, and that was the whole problem.
Going deeper
Ignorance is listed last among these, and the position is the argument.
Ajñāna is not stupidity. It is not knowing what is actually the case - about yourself, mostly. Put it under the other five and they stop looking like decisions. Pretence needs you not to see that you are pretending. Arrogance needs an inflated estimate that has never been checked. Anger nearly always needs a story about what just happened that nobody has tested.
This is why the chapter is not quite the condemnation it first reads as. A person doing these things is being described as blind rather than wicked, and blindness is a condition, not a verdict.
It also changes what you do with the list. Anyone can read it as a description of someone they know. Read honestly, every item on it is available to you on a bad week, and the one at the bottom is the reason you would not notice.