Bhagavad Gita 7.20 Meaning: Kamaistaistairhritajnanah

Bhagavad Gita 7.20

कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः ।तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया ॥

Kamaistaistairhritajnanah prapadyantenyadevatahTam tam niyamamasthaya prakritya niyatah svaya

kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante’nyadevatāḥ |taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā ||

How to read these English letters (IAST)

Our explanation People whose understanding is carried away by this or that desire turn to other deities, Krishna says, following various rules and practices, as their own nature leads them.

हिंदी अर्थ कृष्ण कहते हैं कि जिनका ज्ञान तरह-तरह की कामनाओं ने हर लिया है, वे अपने स्वभाव के अनुसार अलग-अलग नियमों का पालन करते हुए दूसरे देवताओं की शरण लेते हैं।

Word by word

Every word, with its dictionary page

Word by word

कामैः kāmaiḥ · by desires (noun (masculine), instrumental plural) Dictionary: kāma, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 271, col. 3 “wish, desire, longing”
तैः taiḥ · by this (pronoun (masculine), instrumental plural) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
तैः taiḥ · (or) that (pronoun (masculine), instrumental plural) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
हृतज्ञानाः hṛtajñānāḥ · whose understanding is carried away (compound (masculine), nominative plural) Dictionary: hṛta, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1302, col. 1 “taken, taken away, seized”; jñāna, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 426, col. 1 “knowing, becoming acquainted with, knowledge”
प्रपद्यन्ते prapadyante · turn to (present, 3rd person plural) Dictionary: 1. pra-pad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 682, col. 1 “to fly to for succour, take refuge with”
अन्यदेवताः anyadevatāḥ · other deities (compound (feminine), accusative plural) Dictionary: 2. anya, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 45, col. 2 “other, different”; devatā, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 495, col. 3 “godhead, divinity (abstr. & concr.)”
तम् tam · this (pronoun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
तम् tam · (or) that (pronoun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: tad, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 434, col. 1 “m. he, f. she, n. it, that, this”
नियमम् niyamam · rule, observance (noun (masculine), accusative singular) Dictionary: ni-yama, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 552, col. 1 “any fixed rule or law, necessity, obligation”
आस्थाय āsthāya · following (absolutive (having done)) Dictionary: 1. ā-sthā, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 161, col. 2 “to undertake, perform, do, carry out, practise, use”
प्रकृत्या prakṛtyā · by nature (noun (feminine), instrumental singular) Dictionary: pra-kṛti, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 654, col. 1 “the original or natural form or condition of anything, original or primary substance”
नियताः niyatāḥ · led, held (past participle (masculine), nominative plural) Dictionary: ni-yata, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 552, col. 1 “restrained, checked, curbed, suppressed, restricted, controlled”
स्वया svayā · by their own (adjective (feminine), instrumental singular) Dictionary: 1. sva, Monier-Williams 1899, p. 1275, col. 1 “own, one's own, my own, thy own, his own, her own, our own, their own &c.”

Fasts and so forth. ↩

Which are the result of the actions done in previous lives. ↩

Fasts and so forth. ↩

Which are the result of the actions done in previous lives. ↩

Bhagavad Gita 7.20: meaning and translation

Text and layers