Sanskrit · Devanagari
यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे तु प्रलयं याति देहभृत्। तदोत्तमविदां लोकानमलान्प्रतिपद्यते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
yadā sattve pravṛddhe tu pralayaṃ yāti dehabhṛt tadottamavidāṃ lokānamalānpratipadyate
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882these are produced O descendant of Kuru ! when darkness is developed. When an embodied (self) encounters death while goodness is developed then he reaches the untainted worlds of those who know the highest.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।14.14।। --,यदा सत्त्वे प्रवृद्धे उद्भूते तु प्रलयं मरणं याति प्रतिपद्यते देहभृत् आत्मा? तदा उत्तमविदां महदादितत्त्वविदाम् इत्येतत्? लोकान् अमलान् मलरहितान् प्रतिपद्यते प्राप्नोति इत्येतत्।।
c15ecebe32cd…Rāmānuja
14.14 When the 'Sattva prevails' i.e., while the Sattva continues to be prevalent, if the embodies self meets with death, It reaches the pure worlds, i.e., regions conducive to the knowledge of the self. The purport is this: If Satva preponderates in a person at the time of death, he will be rorn in the families of those who have the knowledge of the self, and thus be alified to perform auspicious acts which are the means of attaining the true knowledge of the self.
e2eed98c6ed5…Swami Sivananda
14.14 यदा when? सत्त्वे in Sattva? प्रवृद्धे having become predominant? तु verily? प्रलयम् death? याति meets? देहभृत् the embodied one? तदा then? उत्तमविदाम् of the knowers of the Highest? लोकान् to the worlds? अमलान् of the spotless? प्रतिपद्यते (he) attains.Commentary Lokan Amalan Sptless worlds Brahmaloka and the like where Rajas and Tamas never predominate.The Highest Deities such as Hiranyagarbha.
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