Sanskrit · Devanagari
आसुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि। मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम् ॥
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āsurīṃ yonimāpannā mūḍhā janmani janmani māmaprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yāntyadhamāṃ gatim
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Coming into demoniac wombs, deluded in every birth, they go down to the vilest state, O son of Kuntī ! without ever coming to me.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।16.20।। --,आसुरीं योनिम् आपन्नाः प्रतिपन्नाः मूढाः अविवेकिनः जन्मनि जन्मनि प्रतिजन्म तमोबहुलास्वेव योनिषु जायमानाः अधो गच्छन्तो मूढाः माम् ईश्वरम् अप्राप्य अनासाद्य एव हे कौन्तेय? ततः तस्मादपि यान्ति अधमां गतिं निकृष्टतमां गतिम्। माम् अप्राप्यैव इति न मत्प्राप्तौ काचिदपि आशङ्का अस्ति? अतः मच्छिष्टसाधुमार्गम् अप्राप्य इत्यर्थः।।सर्वस्या आसुर्याः संपदः संक्षेपः अयम् उच्यते? यस्मिन् त्रिविधे सर्वः आसुरीसंपद्भेदः अनन्तोऽपि अन्तर्भवति। यत्परिहारेण परिहृतश्च भवति? यत् मूलं सर्वस्य अनर्थस्य? तत् एतत् उच्यते --,
2b887640c349…Rāmānuja
16.20 'These deluded men,' viz., those entertaining perverse knowledge about Me, attain repeatedly births that tend them to be antagonistic to Me. Never 'attaining Me,' viz., never arriving at the knowledge that Vasudeva, the Lord and the ruler of all, truly exists, they go farther and farther down, from that birth, to the lowest level. Sri Krsna proceeds to explain the root-cause of the ruin to the self of demoniac nature:
240d66c265e9…Swami Sivananda
16.20 असुरीम् demoniacal? योनिम् womb? आपन्नाः entering into? मूढाः deluded? जन्मनि जन्मनि in birth after birth? माम् Me? अप्राप्य not attaining? एव still? कौन्तेय O son of Kunti (Arjuna)? ततः than that? यान्ति (they) fall into? अधमाम् lower? गतिम् condition (path or goal).Commentary These degraded Asuras are cast into the demoniacal wombs. They are reduced to the very lowest condition or the most appalling state. They are cast into utter darkness. They fall into lower and yet lower wombs in response to their own satanic desires and actions and their extreme Tamasic nature. From the birth of a tiger? they will get the birth of a serpent from a serpents they will get the birth of a wormfrom that they will get the birth of a tree? etc. In Sanskrit the suffix Tara denotes comparative degree and Tama is superlative degree. These people get Nikrishtatama Yonis (the lowest wombs).They do not reach Me as their minds are filled with impurities? as they do not tread the path of righteousness in accordance with the injunctions of the scriptures. The diabolical nature is inimical to spiritual progress. Therefore? you will have to annihilate the evil tendencies by cultivating divine alities and the practice of regular meditation. Then and only then will you attain liberation.
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