Bhagavad Gita 18.71 Meaning: Shraddhavananasuyashcha

Bhagavad Gita 18.71

श्रद्धावाननसूयश्च शृणुयादपि यो नरः ।सोऽपि मुक्तः शुभांल्लोकान्प्राप्नुयात्पुण्यकर्मणाम् ॥

Shraddhavananasuyashcha shrinuyadapi yo narahSopi muktah shubhanllokanprapnuyatpunyakarmanam

śraddhāvānanasūyaśca śṛṇuyādapi yo naraḥ |so’pi muktaḥ śubhāṃllokānprāpnuyātpuṇyakarmaṇām ||

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Our explanation The text says, in Krishna's words, that even a person who only listens to it, with faith and without fault-finding, is set free and reaches the happy worlds of those who do good. This is the Gita's own claim about hearing it.

हिंदी अर्थ यह श्लोक कृष्ण के शब्दों में कहता है कि जो व्यक्ति श्रद्धा से और दोष निकाले बिना इसे केवल सुनता भी है, वह भी मुक्त होकर पुण्य करने वालों के शुभ लोकों को पाता है। यह गीता को सुनने के बारे में गीता का अपना कथन है।

The text’s own words about its benefits, not a promise from Pujadeep.

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श्रद्धावान् śraddhāvān · full of faith (adjective (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: śraddhā-vat, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1095, col. 3; śraddhā, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1095, col. 3 “faith, trust, confidence, trustfulness, faithfulness, belief in”
अनसूयः anasūyaḥ · without fault-finding (adjective (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: an-asūya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 27, col. 2 “not spiteful, not envious”
च ca · and (indeclinable) Dictionary: 2. ca, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 380, col. 1 “and, both, also, moreover, as well as”
शृणुयात् śṛṇuyāt · should hear (optative, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: 1. śru, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1100, col. 3 “to hear, listen or attend to anything”
अपि api · even (indeclinable) Dictionary: api, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 55, col. 1 “in the sense of even, also, very”
यः yaḥ · who (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: yad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 844, col. 2 “who, which, what, whichever, whatever, that”
नरः naraḥ · a person (noun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: nara, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 528, col. 3 “a man, a male, a person (pl. men, people)”
सः saḥ · he (pronoun (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
अपि api · also (indeclinable) Dictionary: api, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 55, col. 1 “in the sense of even, also, very”
मुक्तः muktaḥ · freed (past participle (masculine), nominative singular) Dictionary: mukta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 820, col. 3 “liberated, delivered, emancipated (esp. from sin or worldly existence)”
शुभान् śubhān · auspicious, happy (adjective (masculine), accusative plural) Dictionary: śubha, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1083, col. 2 “auspicious, fortunate, prosperous”
लोकान् lokān · worlds (noun (masculine), accusative plural) Dictionary: loka, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 906, col. 1 “the wide space or world”
प्राप्नुयात् prāpnuyāt · would reach (optative, 3rd person singular) Dictionary: prāp, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 707, col. 2 “to attain to, reach, arrive at, meet with, find”
पुण्यकर्मणाम् puṇyakarmaṇām · of those of good deeds (compound (masculine), genitive plural) Dictionary: puṇya-karman, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 632, col. 1 “acting right, virtuous, pious”

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Spelling A digital text reads Same word. The e-text writes the nasal of शुभाँल्लोकान् with a candrabindu; the 1922 edition writes anusvara (शुभांल्लोकान्).

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