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Bhagavad Gita · 7.15 · Self-Knowledge and Enlightenment·15 of 30

न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाःमाययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः

na māṁ duṣhkṛitino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante

narādhamāḥ māyayāpahṛita-jñānā āsuraṁ bhāvam āśhritāḥ

Sanskrit recitation

Why people seek · 7.15–7.19 · Teaching

Translation

The evil-doers and the deluded, who are the lowest of men, do not seek Me; those whose knowledge is destroyed by illusion follow the ways of demons.

Meaning

These three kinds of people have no discrimination between right and wrong, the Real and the unreal. They commit murder, robbery, theft and other kinds of atrocious actions. They speak untruth and injure others in a variety of ways. Those who follow the ways of the demons take the body as the Self like Vivochana and worship it with flowers, scents, unguents, nice clothes and palatable foods of various sorts. They are deluded souls. They try to nourish their body and do various sorts of evil actions to attain this end. Therefore they do not worship Me. Ignorance is the root cause of all these evils. (Cf.XVI.16and20)

After Swami Sivananda

Why people seek· 7.15–7.19

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
na
not
mām
unto me
bhāvam
nature
āsuram
demoniac
māyayā
by God’s material energy
prapadyante
surrender
mūḍhāḥ
the ignorant
āśhritāḥ
surrender
nara-adhamāḥ
one who lazily follows one’s lower nature
duṣhkṛitinaḥ
the evil doers
apahṛita jñānāḥ
those with deluded intellect

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