Bhagavad-gita (with Vaishnava commentaries)
by Narayana Gosvami | 2013 | 327,105 words
The Bhagavad-gita Verse 16.23, English translation, including the Vaishnava commentaries Sarartha-varsini-tika, Prakashika-vritti and Rasika-ranjana (excerpts). This is verse Verse 16.23 from the chapter 16 called 鈥淒aivasura-sampada-yoga (Yoga through discerning Divine and Demoniac Qualities)鈥�
Verse 16.23
Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration, Word-for-word and English translation of verse 16.23:
啶 啶多ぞ啶膏啶む啶�-啶掂た啶оた啶 啶夃い啷嵿じ啷冟啷嵿く 啶掂ぐ啷嵿い啷嵿い啶む 啶曕ぞ啶�-啶氞ぞ啶班い啶� 啷�
啶� 啶� 啶膏た啶︵啶оた啶 啶呧さ啶距お啷嵿え啷嬥い啶� 啶� 啶膏啶栢 啶� 啶ぐ啶距 啶椸い啶苦ぎ啷� 啷� 啷ㄠォ 啷�测补岣� 艣腻蝉迟谤补-惫颈诲丑颈尘 耻迟蝉峁沯测补 varttate 办腻尘补-肠腻谤补迟补岣� |
na sa siddhim av膩pnoti na sukha峁� na par膩峁� gatim || 23 ||测补岣�鈥搘丑辞; 艣腻蝉迟谤补-惫颈诲丑颈尘鈥搕he codes of scripture; 耻迟蝉峁沯测补鈥損uts aside; varttate鈥揵别丑补惫颈苍驳; 办腻尘补-肠腻谤补迟补岣�鈥揵y the influence of desire; na鈥搉辞谤; 蝉补岣�鈥揾别; siddhim鈥损别谤蹿别肠迟颈辞苍; av膩pnoti na鈥搉either attains; sukham鈥揾补辫辫颈苍别蝉蝉; na鈥搉辞谤; 辫补谤腻尘鈥搕he supreme; gatim鈥揹别蝉迟颈苍补迟颈辞苍.
He who discards the injunctions of scripture and acts according to his whimsical desires, attains neither perfection, happiness, nor the supreme destination.
Commentary: S膩r膩rtha-Var峁峁嚹� 峁玨膩
(By 艢r墨la 痴颈艣惫补苍腻迟丑补 颁补办谤补惫补谤迟墨 峁琱腻办耻谤补; the innermost intention of the commentary named 鈥榯he shower of essential meanings鈥�)
Theism is most auspicious. For this purpose, 艢r墨 叠丑补驳补惫腻苍 speaks this verse beginning with 测补岣�. 碍腻尘补-肠腻谤补迟补岣� means 鈥榯o act whimsically鈥� and it leads one to hell. Only those who are theists are 蝉腻诲丑耻蝉 and only they attain the supreme destination. Those who are atheists go to hell. This is the essence of this chapter.
Thus ends the 产丑腻惫腻苍耻惫腻诲补 of 艢r墨la 痴颈艣惫补苍腻迟丑补 颁补办谤补惫补谤迟墨 峁琱腻办耻谤补鈥檚
厂腻谤腻谤迟丑补-惫补谤峁峁嚹�-峁玨腻 (the commentary that gives pleasure
to the devotees and is accepted by all saintly persons)
on the Sixteenth Chapter of 艢谤墨尘补诲 叠丑补驳补惫补诲-驳墨迟腻.
Commentary: S膩r膩rtha-Var峁峁嚹� Prak膩艣ik膩-v峁泃ti
(By 艢r墨la Bhaktived膩nta 狈腻谤腻测补峁嘺 骋辞蝉惫腻尘墨 惭补丑腻谤腻箩补; the explanation that illuminates the commentary named 厂腻谤腻谤迟丑补-惫补谤峁峁嚹�)
Unrestrained people who disregard the codes of scripture cannot attain the highest destination.
It is stated in Bhakti-谤补蝉腻尘峁泃补-sindhu (1.2.101):
艣谤耻迟颈-蝉尘峁泃颈-辫耻谤腻峁嚹乨颈-辫补帽肠补谤腻迟谤补-惫颈诲丑颈峁� 惫颈苍腻
aik膩ntik墨 harer bhaktir utp膩t膩yaiva kalpateAlthough engaged in exclusive devotion to 艢r墨 Hari, if one transgresses the regulations mentioned in the 艢ruti, Sm峁泃i, 笔耻谤腻峁嘺蝉 and N膩rada-辫补帽肠补谤腻迟谤补, great misgivings (anarthas) are produced.