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.
16.21 त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः।कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत्
trividhaṃ narakasy
Word meanings
tri-vidham—three types of;narakasya—to the hell;idam—this;dvāram—gates;nāśhanam—destruction;ātmanaḥ—self;kāmaḥ—lust;krodhaḥ—anger;tathā—and;lobhaḥ—greed;tasmāt—therefore;etat—these;trayam—three;tyajet—should abandon
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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To the hell, there are three gates that ruin the Self: desire, anger, and greed. Hence, one should avoid these three.
The gates of hell are three: lust, wrath and avarice. They destroy the Self. Avoid them.
Desire, wrath and greed - this is the triple gateway to Naraka, ruinous to the self. Therefore one should abandon these three.
This door of hell, which is the destroyer of the soul, is of three kinds-passion, anger and also greed. Therefore one should forsake these three.
Triple is the gate of this hell, destructive of the self–lust, anger, and greed,–therefore, one should abandon these three.
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दैवासुरसम्पद्विभागयोग
Chapter 16: Two Paths
daivāsurasampadvibhāgayoga
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16.20 असुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि।मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम्
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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!
