Bhagavad Gita 16.10 Meaning: Kamamashritya dushpuram

Bhagavad Gita 16.10

काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः ।मोहाद्गृहीत्वाऽसद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ॥

Kamamashritya dushpuram dambhamanamadanvitahMohadgrihitvasadgrahanpravartanteshuchivratah

kāmamāśritya duṣpūraṃ dambhamānamadānvitāḥ |mohādgṛhītvā’sadgrāhānpravartante’śucivratāḥ ||

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Our explanation Krishna goes on. Such people give themselves to desire that can never be filled. They are full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance. Out of delusion they take up false ideas, and they act with impure vows (aśuci-vrata).

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण आगे कहते हैं। ऐसे लोग उस इच्छा का सहारा लेते हैं जो कभी पूरी नहीं होती। वे दंभ, मान और मद से भरे रहते हैं। मोह के कारण वे गलत विचार पकड़ लेते हैं और अपवित्र व्रतों (अशुचिव्रत) के साथ कर्म में लगे रहते हैं।

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कामम् kāmam · desire (noun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: kāma, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 271, col. 3 “wish, desire, longing”
आश्रित्य āśritya · holding to (absolutive (having done)) Dictionary: 1. ā-śri, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 158, col. 2 “to betake one's self to, resort to”
दुष्पूरम् duṣpūram · hard to fill (adjective (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: duṣ-pūra, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 488, col. 1 “difficult to be filled or satisfied”
दम्भमानमदान्विताः dambhamānamadānvitāḥ · full of show, pride and arrogance (compound (masculine), nominative plural) Dictionary: dambha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 469, col. 3 “deceit, fraud, feigning, hypocrisy”; 1. māna, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 809, col. 1 “self-conceit, arrogance, pride”; mada, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 777, col. 3 “pride, arrogance, presumption”; anv-ita, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 47, col. 2 “gone along with; joined, attended, accompanied by, connected with”
मोहात् mohāt · through delusion (noun (masculine), ablative singular) Dictionary: moha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 836, col. 1 “loss of consciousness, bewilderment, perplexity, distraction, infatuation, delusion”
गृहीत्वा gṛhītvā · having taken up (absolutive (having done)) Dictionary: grah, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 371, col. 3 “to seize, take”
असद्ग्राहान् asadgrāhān · false notions (compound (masculine), accusative plural) Dictionary: asad-grāha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 118, col. 3; asad-graha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 118, col. 3 “caprice, idle or childish desire”
प्रवर्तन्ते pravartante · set to work (present, 3rd person plural) Dictionary: pra-vṛt, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 693, col. 2 “to commence, begin to (inf.), set about, engage in”
अशुचिव्रताः aśucivratāḥ · with impure resolves (compound (masculine), nominative plural) Dictionary: a-śuci, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 113, col. 2 “impure, foul”; vrata, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1042, col. 2 “any vow or firm purpose, resolve”

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Edition differences. Another printing or text reads this place differently.

Spelling A digital text reads Same words. The 1922 edition marks the merged vowel with an avagraha (गृहीत्वाऽसद्ग्राहान्, leaf n230); the e-text writes गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्, as another digital text does.

Such as that by propitiating a certain divinity by a certain rite they may obtain treasure and so forth. ↩

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