16.17 आत्मसम्भाविताः स्तब्धा धनमानमदान्विताः।यजन्ते नामयज्ञैस्ते दम्भेनाविधिपूर्वकम्
ātma
Word meanings
ātma-sambhāvitāḥ—self-conceited;stabdhāḥ—stubborn;dhana—wealth;māna—pride;mada—arrogance;anvitāḥ—full of;yajante—perform sacrifice;nāma—in name only;yajñaiḥ—sacrifices;te—they;dambhena—ostentatiously;avidhi-pūrvakam—with no regards to the rules of the scriptures
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Self-conceited, stubborn, filled with pride and arrogance of wealth, they pretend to perform sacrifices hypocritically, not following the injunctions of the Vedas.
Self-conceited, stubborn, rich, proud and insolent, they make a display of their patronage, disregarding the rules of decency.
Self-conceited, self-sufficient, possessed of the intoxication of wealth and pride, they perform sacrifices in name only, with ostentation and not according to the injunctions of the Sastras.
Self-conceited, haughty, filled with pride and intoxication of wealth, they perform sacrifices which are so in name only, with ostentation and regardless of the injunctions.
Self-conceited, stubborn, filled with the intoxication and pride of wealth, they perform sacrifices in name, through ostentation, contrary to scriptural ordinances.
16.19 तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु
tān
Word meanings
tān—these;aham—I;dviṣhataḥ—hateful;krūrān—cruel;sansāreṣhu—in the material world;nara-adhamān—the vile and vicious of humankind;kṣhipāmi—I hurl;ajasram—again and again;aśhubhān—inauspicious;āsurīṣhu—demoniac;eva—indeed;yoniṣhu—into the wombs
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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These hateful, cruel, and base men, I hurl incessantly into the inauspicious, demoniac wombs, alone in the cycle of birth and death.
Those who thus hate Me, who are cruel, the dregs of mankind, I condemn them to a continuous, miserable and godless rebirth.
Those haters, cruel, the vilest and the most inauspicious of mankind, I hurl forever into the cycles of births and deaths, into the wombs of demons.
I cast for ever those hateful, cruel, evil-doers in the worlds, the vilest of human beings, verily into the demoniacal classes.
These cruel haters, the worst among men in the world,–I hurl all these evil-doers for ever into the wombs of demons only.
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दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग
Chapter 16: Two Paths
daivāsurasampadvibhāgayoga
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16.18 अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं च संश्रिताः।मामात्मपरदेहेषु प्रद्विषन्तोऽभ्यसूयकाः
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Word meanings
ahankāram—egotism;balam—strength;darpam—arrogance;kāmam—desire;krodham—anger;cha—and;sanśhritāḥ—covered by;mām—me;ātma-para-deheṣhu—within one’s own and bodies of others;pradviṣhantaḥ—abuse;abhyasūyakāḥ—the demoniac
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Clinging fast to egotism, force, pride, craving, and anger, these envious people hate Me in the bodies of their own and of others.
Puffed up by power and inordinate conceit, swayed by lust and wrath, these wicked people hate Me Who am within them, as I am within all.
Depending on their egoism, power and pride, and also of desire and wrath, these malicious men hate Me in their own bodies and in those of others.
Resorting to egotism, power, arrogance, passion and anger, hating Me in their own and others' bodies, (they become) [As the finite verb is missing in the verse, we have supplied 'they become'. S. adds the verb prabhavanti, wax strong, from verse 9, and constructs the last portion thus: '৷৷.the envious ones wax strong.' Following S. S., however, one may combine this verse with the preceding verse by taking 'perform sacrifices' as the finite verb.-Tr.'] envious by nature.
Given over to egoism, power, haughtiness, lust and anger, these malicious people hate Me in their own bodies and those of others.
