5.15 नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः। अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः
n
Word meanings
na—not;ādatte—accepts;kasyachit—anyone’s;pāpam—sin;na—not;cha—and;eva—certainly;su-kṛitam—virtuous deeds;vibhuḥ—the omnipresent God;ajñānena—by ignorance;āvṛitam—covered;jñānam—knowledge;tena—by that;muhyanti—are deluded;jantavaḥ—the living entities
Verse audio
Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Translation stream
The Omnimanifest Soul takes neither sin nor merit born of any action upon itself. But, perfect knowledge is clouded by Illusion, and thus the creatures are deluded.
The Lord does not accept responsibility for any man's sin or merit. Men are deluded because in them wisdom is submerged in ignorance.
The all-pervading One takes away neither the sin nor the merit of any one. Knowledge is enveloped by ignorance. Creatures are thereby deluded.
The Omnipresent neither accepts anybody's sin nor even virtue. Knowledge remains covered by ignorance. Thereby the creatures become deluded.
The Lord accepts neither the demerit nor even the merit of any; knowledge is enveloped by ignorance, thereby beings are deluded.
5.17 तद्बुद्धयस्तदात्मानस्तन्निष्ठास्तत्परायणाः। गच्छन्त्यपुनरावृत्तिं ज्ञाननिर्धूतकल्मषाः
tad
Word meanings
tat-buddhayaḥ—those whose intellect is directed toward God;tat-ātmānaḥ—those whose heart (mind and intellect) is solely absorbed in God;tat-niṣhṭhāḥ—those whose intellect has firm faith in God;tat-parāyaṇāḥ—those who strive after God as the supreme goal and refuge;gachchhanti—go;apunaḥ-āvṛittim—not returning;jñāna—by knowledge;nirdhūta—dispelled;kalmaṣhāḥ—sins
Verse audio
Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Translation stream
Those who have their intellect and self (mind) devoted to This; who have established themselves in This and have This [alone] as their supreme goal; and who have washed off their sins through [perfect] knowledge—they reach a state from which there is no more return.
Meditating on the Divine, having faith in the Divine, concentrating on the Divine and losing themselves in the Divine, their sins dissolved in wisdom, they go whence there is no return.
Those whose intellects pursue It (the self), whose minds think about It, who undergo discipline for It, and who hold It as their highest object, have their impurities cleansed by knowledge and go whence there is no return.
Those who have their intellect absorbed in That, whose Self is That, who are steadfast in That, who have That as their supreme Goal-they attain the state of non-returning, their dirt having been removed by Knowledge.
Their intellect absorbed in That, their self being That; established in That, with That as their supreme goal, they go whence there is no return, their sins dispelled by knowledge.
Verse
कर्मसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 5: Renounce Through Works
karmasaṃnyāsayoga
Chapters
Verses
5.16 ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः। तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम्
|
Word meanings
jñānena—by divine knowledge;tu—but;tat—that;ajñānam—ignorance;yeṣhām—whose;nāśhitam—has been destroyed;ātmanaḥ—of the self;teṣhām—their;āditya-vat—like the sun;jñānam—knowledge;prakāśhayati—illumines;tat—that;param—Supreme Entity
Verse audio
Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
Translation stream
In the case of those whose illusion has been destroyed by Self-knowledge, that knowledge illuminates itself, like the sun.
Surely wisdom is like the sun, revealing the supreme truth to those whose ignorance is dispelled by the wisdom of the Self.
But for those in whom this ignorance is destroyed by the knowledge of the self, that knowledge, in their case, is supreme and shines like the sun.
But in the case of those of whom that ignorance of theirs becomes destroyed by the knowledge (of the Self), their Knowledge, like the sun, reveals that supreme Reality.
But, to those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, like the sun, knowledge reveals the Supreme (Brahman).
