Sloka 1
श्रीभगवानुवाच |
अभयं सत्त्वसंशुद्धिर्ज्ञानयोगव्यवस्थितिः |
दानं दमश्च यज्ञश्च स्वाध्यायस्तप आर्जवम् ||१६-१||
Transliteration
śrībhagavānuvāca .
abhayaṃ sattvasaṃśuddhirjñānayogavyavasthitiḥ .
dānaṃ damaśca yajñaśca svādhyāyastapa ārjavam ||16-1||
Meaning
16.1 "Lord Shri Krishna continued: Fearlessness, clean living, unceasing concentration on wisdom, readiness to give, self-control, a spirit of sacrifice, regular study of the scriptures, austerities, candour,
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Sloka 2
अहिंसा सत्यमक्रोधस्त्यागः शान्तिरपैशुनम् |
दया भूतेष्वलोलुप्त्वं मार्दवं ह्रीरचापलम् ||१६-२||
Transliteration
ahiṃsā satyamakrodhastyāgaḥ śāntirapaiśunam .
dayā bhūteṣvaloluptvaṃ mārdavaṃ hrīracāpalam ||16-2||
Meaning
16.2 harmlessness, truth, absence of wrath, renunciation, contentment, straightforwardness, compassion towards all, uncovetousness, courtesy, modesty, constancy,
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Sloka 3
तेजः क्षमा धृतिः शौचमद्रोहो नातिमानिता |
भवन्ति सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातस्य भारत ||१६-३||
Transliteration
tejaḥ kṣamā dhṛtiḥ śaucamadroho nātimānitā .
bhavanti sampadaṃ daivīmabhijātasya bhārata ||16-3||
Meaning
16.3 Valour, forgiveness, fortitude, purity, freedom from hate and vanity; these are his who possesses the Godly Qualities, O Arjuna!
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Sloka 4
दम्भो दर्पोऽभिमानश्च क्रोधः पारुष्यमेव च |
अज्ञानं चाभिजातस्य पार्थ सम्पदमासुरीम् ||१६-४||
Transliteration
dambho darpo.abhimānaśca krodhaḥ pāruṣyameva ca .
ajñānaṃ cābhijātasya pārtha sampadamāsurīm ||16-4||
Meaning
16.4 Hypocrisy, pride, insolence, cruelty, ignorance belong to him who is born of the godless qualities.
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Sloka 5
दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता |
मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव ||१६-५||
Transliteration
daivī sampadvimokṣāya nibandhāyāsurī matā .
mā śucaḥ sampadaṃ daivīmabhijāto.asi pāṇḍava ||16-5||
Meaning
16.5 Godly qualities lead to liberation; godless to bondage. Do not be anxious, Prince! Thou hast the Godly qualities.
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Sloka 6
द्वौ भूतसर्गौ लोकेऽस्मिन्दैव आसुर एव च |
दैवो विस्तरशः प्रोक्त आसुरं पार्थ मे शृणु ||१६-६||
Transliteration
dvau bhūtasargau loke.asmindaiva āsura eva ca .
daivo vistaraśaḥ prokta āsuraṃ pārtha me śṛṇu ||16-6||
Meaning
16.6 All beings are of two classes: Godly and godless. The Godly I have described; I will now describe the other.
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Sloka 7
प्रवृत्तिं च निवृत्तिं च जना न विदुरासुराः |
न शौचं नापि चाचारो न सत्यं तेषु विद्यते ||१६-७||
Transliteration
pravṛttiṃ ca nivṛttiṃ ca janā na vidurāsurāḥ .
na śaucaṃ nāpi cācāro na satyaṃ teṣu vidyate ||16-7||
Meaning
16.7 The godless do not know how to act or how to renounce. They have neither purity nor truth. They do not understand the right principles of conduct.
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Sloka 8
असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम् |
अपरस्परसम्भूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम् ||१६-८||
Transliteration
asatyamapratiṣṭhaṃ te jagadāhuranīśvaram .
aparasparasambhūtaṃ kimanyatkāmahaitukam ||16-8||
Meaning
16.8 They say the universe is an accident with no purpose and no God. Life is created by sexual union, a product of lust and nothing else.
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Sloka 9
एतां दृष्टिमवष्टभ्य नष्टात्मानोऽल्पबुद्धयः |
प्रभवन्त्युग्रकर्माणः क्षयाय जगतोऽहिताः ||१६-९||
Transliteration
etāṃ dṛṣṭimavaṣṭabhya naṣṭātmāno.alpabuddhayaḥ .
prabhavantyugrakarmāṇaḥ kṣayāya jagato.ahitāḥ ||16-9||
Meaning
16.9 Thinking thus, these degraded souls, these enemies of mankind - whose intelligence is negligible and whose deeds are monstrous - come into the world only to destroy.
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Sloka 10
काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः |
मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ||१६-१०||
Transliteration
kāmamāśritya duṣpūraṃ dambhamānamadānvitāḥ .
mohādgṛhītvāsadgrāhānpravartante.aśucivratāḥ ||16-10||
Meaning
16.10 Giving themselves up to insatiable passions, hypocritical, self-sufficient and arrogant, cherishing false conception founded on delusion, they work only to carry out their own unholy purposes.
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Sloka 11
चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः |
कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः ||१६-११||
Transliteration
cintāmaparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntāmupāśritāḥ .
kāmopabhogaparamā etāvaditi niścitāḥ ||16-11||
Meaning
16.11 Poring anxiously over evil resolutions, which only end in death; seeking only the gratification of desire as the highest goal; seeing nothing beyond;
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Sloka 12
आशापाशशतैर्बद्धाः कामक्रोधपरायणाः |
ईहन्ते कामभोगार्थमन्यायेनार्थसञ्चयान् ||१६-१२||
Transliteration
āśāpāśaśatairbaddhāḥ kāmakrodhaparāyaṇāḥ .
īhante kāmabhogārthamanyāyenārthasañcayān ||16-12||
Meaning
16.12 Caught in the toils of a hundred vain hopes, the slaves of passion and wrath, they accumulate hoards of unjust wealth, only to pander to their sensual desire.
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इदमद्य मया लब्धमिमं प्राप्स्ये मनोरथम् |
इदमस्तीदमपि मे भविष्यति पुनर्धनम् ||१६-१३||
Transliteration
idamadya mayā labdhamimaṃ prāpsye manoratham .
idamastīdamapi me bhaviṣyati punardhanam ||16-13||
Meaning
16.13 This I have gained today; tomorrow I will gratify another desire; this wealth is mine now, the rest shall be mine ere long;
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Sloka 14
असौ मया हतः शत्रुर्हनिष्ये चापरानपि |
ईश्वरोऽहमहं भोगी सिद्धोऽहं बलवान्सुखी ||१६-१४||
Transliteration
asau mayā hataḥ śatrurhaniṣye cāparānapi .
īśvaro.ahamahaṃ bhogī siddho.ahaṃ balavānsukhī ||16-14||
Meaning
16.14 I have slain one enemy, I will slay the others also; I am worthy to enjoy, I am the Almighty, I am perfect, powerful and happy;
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Sloka 15
आढ्योऽभिजनवानस्मि कोऽन्योऽस्ति सदृशो मया |
यक्ष्ये दास्यामि मोदिष्य इत्यज्ञानविमोहिताः ||१६-१५||
Transliteration
āḍhyo.abhijanavānasmi ko.anyo.asti sadṛśo mayā .
yakṣye dāsyāmi modiṣya ityajñānavimohitāḥ ||16-15||
Meaning
16.15 I am rich, I am well-bred; who is there to compare with me? I will sacrifice, I will give, I will pay - and I will enjoy. Thus blinded by Ignorance,
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Sloka 16
अनेकचित्तविभ्रान्ता मोहजालसमावृताः |
प्रसक्ताः कामभोगेषु पतन्ति नरकेऽशुचौ ||१६-१६||
Transliteration
anekacittavibhrāntā mohajālasamāvṛtāḥ .
prasaktāḥ kāmabhogeṣu patanti narake.aśucau ||16-16||
Meaning
16.16 Perplexed by discordant thoughts, entangled in the snares of desire, infatuated by passion, they sink into the horrors of hell.
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Sloka 17
आत्मसम्भाविताः स्तब्धा धनमानमदान्विताः |
यजन्ते नामयज्ञैस्ते दम्भेनाविधिपूर्वकम् ||१६-१७||
Transliteration
ātmasambhāvitāḥ stabdhā dhanamānamadānvitāḥ .
yajante nāmayajñaiste dambhenāvidhipūrvakam ||16-17||
Meaning
16.17 Self-conceited, stubborn, rich, proud and insolent, they make a display of their patronage, disregarding the rules of decency.
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Sloka 18
अहंकारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं च संश्रिताः |
मामात्मपरदेहेषु प्रद्विषन्तोऽभ्यसूयकाः ||१६-१८||
Transliteration
ahaṃkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ ca saṃśritāḥ .
māmātmaparadeheṣu pradviṣanto.abhyasūyakāḥ ||16-18||
Meaning
16.18 Puffed up by power and inordinate conceit, swayed by lust and wrath, these wicked people hate Me Who am within them, as I am within all.
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Sloka 19
तानहं द्विषतः क्रुरान्संसारेषु नराधमान् |
क्षिपाम्यजस्रमशुभानासुरीष्वेव योनिषु ||१६-१९||
Transliteration
tānahaṃ dviṣataḥ krurānsaṃsāreṣu narādhamān .
kṣipāmyajasramaśubhānāsurīṣveva yoniṣu ||16-19||
Meaning
16.19 Those who thus hate Me, who are cruel, the dregs of mankind, I condemn them to a continuous, miserable and godless rebirth.
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Sloka 20
आसुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि |
मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम् ||१६-२०||
Transliteration
āsurīṃ yonimāpannā mūḍhā janmani janmani .
māmaprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yāntyadhamāṃ gatim ||16-20||
Meaning
16.20 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.
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Sloka 21
त्रिविधं नरकस्येदं द्वारं नाशनमात्मनः |
कामः क्रोधस्तथा लोभस्तस्मादेतत्त्रयं त्यजेत् ||१६-२१||
Transliteration
trividhaṃ narakasyedaṃ dvāraṃ nāśanamātmanaḥ .
kāmaḥ krodhastathā lobhastasmādetattrayaṃ tyajet ||16-21||
Meaning
16.21 The gates of hell are three: lust, wrath and avarice. They destroy the Self. Avoid them.
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Sloka 22
एतैर्विमुक्तः कौन्तेय तमोद्वारैस्त्रिभिर्नरः |
आचरत्यात्मनः श्रेयस्ततो याति परां गतिम् ||१६-२२||
Transliteration
etairvimuktaḥ kaunteya tamodvāraistribhirnaraḥ .
ācaratyātmanaḥ śreyastato yāti parāṃ gatim ||16-22||
Meaning
16.22 These are the gates which lead to darkness; if a man avoid them he will ensure his own welfare, and in the end will attain his liberation.
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Sloka 23
यः शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारतः |
न स सिद्धिमवाप्नोति न सुखं न परां गतिम् ||१६-२३||
Transliteration
yaḥ śāstravidhimutsṛjya vartate kāmakārataḥ .
na sa siddhimavāpnoti na sukhaṃ na parāṃ gatim ||16-23||
Meaning
16.23 But he who neglects the commands of the scriptures, and follows the promptings of passion, he does not attain perfection, happiness or the final goal.
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Sloka 24
तस्माच्छास्त्रं प्रमाणं ते कार्याकार्यव्यवस्थितौ |
ज्ञात्वा शास्त्रविधानोक्तं कर्म कर्तुमिहार्हसि ||१६-२४||
Transliteration
tasmācchāstraṃ pramāṇaṃ te kāryākāryavyavasthitau .
jñātvā śāstravidhānoktaṃ karma kartumihārhasi ||16-24||
Meaning
16.24 Therefore whenever there is doubt whether thou shouldst do a thing or not, let the scriptures guide thy conduct. In the light of the scriptures shouldst thou labour the whole of thy life."
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