16.18 अहङ्कारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं च संश्रिताः।मामात्मपरदेहेषु प्रद्विषन्तोऽभ्यसूयकाः
ahaṅkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ ca saṃśritāḥ | mām
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.
16.20 असुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि।मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम्
asurīṃ yonim
Word meanings
āsurīm—demoniac;yonim—wombs;āpannāḥ—gaining;mūḍhāḥ—the ignorant;janmani janmani—in birth after birth;mām—me;aprāpya—failing to reach;eva—even;kaunteya—Arjun, the son of Kunti;tataḥ—thereafter;yānti—go;adhamām—abominable;gatim—destination
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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Having come to the demoniac womb, birth after birth, and not attaining Me at all, these deluded persons, therefore, pass to the lowest state, O son of Kunti!
So reborn, they spend life after life, enveloped in delusion. And they never reach Me, O Prince, but degenerate into still lower forms of life.
Fallen into demoniac wombs in birth after birth, these deluded men, not attaining Me, further sink down to the lowest level, O Arjuna.
Being born among the demoniacal species in births after births, the foods, without ever reaching Me, O son of Kunti, attain conditions lower than that.
Entering into demoniacal wombs and deluded birth after birth, not attaining Me, they thus fall, O Arjuna, into a condition still lower than that!
Verse
दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग
Chapter 16: Two Paths
daivāsurasampadvibhāgayoga
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Verses
16.19 तानहं द्विषतः क्रूरान्संसारेषु नराधमान्।क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु
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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.
