Sanskrit · Devanagari
कामात्मानः स्वर्गपरा जन्मकर्मफलप्रदाम्। क्रियाविशेषबहुलां भोगैश्वर्यगतिं प्रति ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
kāmātmānaḥ svargaparā janmakarmaphalapradām kriyāviśeṣabahulāṃ bhogaiśvaryagatiṃ prati
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882who are full of desires and whose goal is heaven.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।2.43।। कामात्मानः कामस्वभावाः कामपरा इत्यर्थः। स्वर्गपराः स्वर्गः परः पुरुषार्थः येषां ते स्वर्गपराः स्वर्गप्रधानाः। जन्मकर्मफलप्रदां कर्मणः फलं कर्मफलं जन्मैव कर्मफलं जन्मकर्मफलं तत् प्रददातीति जन्मकर्मफलप्रदा तां वाचम्। प्रवदन्ति इत्यनुषज्यते। क्रियाविशेषबहुलां क्रियाणां विशेषाः क्रियाविशेषाः ते बहुला यस्यां वाचि तां स्वर्गपशुपुत्राद्यर्थाः यया वाचा बाहुल्येन प्रकाश्यन्ते। भोगैश्वर्यगतिं प्रति भोगश्च ऐश्वर्यं च भोगैश्वर्ये तयोर्गतिः प्राप्तिः भोगैश्वर्यगतिः तां प्रति साधनभूताः ये क्रियाविशेषाः तद्बहुलां तां वाचं प्रवदन्तः मूढाः संसारे परिवर्तन्ते इत्यभिप्रायः।।तेषां च
fe72b435a46f…Rāmānuja
2.42 - 2.44 The ignorant, whose knowledge is little, and who have as their sole aim the attainment of enjoyment and power, speak the flowery language i.e., having its flowers (show) only as fruits, which look apparently beautiful at first sight. They rejoice in the letter of the Vedas i.e., they are attached to heaven and such other results (promised in the Karma-kanda of the Vedas). They say that there is nothing else, owing to their intense attachment to these results. They say that there is no fruit superior to heaven etc. They are full of worldly desires and their minds are highly attached to secular desires. They hanker for heaven, i.e. think of the enjoyment of the felicities of heaven, after which one can again have rirth which offers again the opportunity to perform varied rites devoid of true knowledge and leads towards the attainment of enjoyments and power once again. With regard to those who cling to pleasure and power and whose understanding is contaminated by that flowery speech relating to pleasure and lordly powers, the aforesaid mental disposition characterised by resolution, will not arise in their Samadhi. Samadhi here means the mind. The knowledge of the self will not arise in such minds. In the minds of these persons, there cannot arise the mental disposition that looks on all Vedic rituals as means for liberation based on the determined conviction about the real form of the self. Hence, in an aspirant for liberation, there should be no attachment to rituals out of the conviction that they are meant for the acisition of objects of desire only. It may be estioned why the Vedas, which have more of love for Jivas than thousands of parents, and which are endeavouring to save the Jivas, should prescribe in this way rites whose fruits are infinitesimal and which produce only new births. It can also be asked if it is proper to abandon what is given in the Vedas. Sri Krsna replies to these estions.
332ef5edcece…Swami Sivananda
2.43 कामात्मानः full of desires? स्वर्गपराः with heaven as their highest goal? जन्मकर्मफलप्रदाम् leading to (new) births as the result of their works? क्रियाविशेषबहुलाम् exuberant with various specifi actions? भोगैश्वर्यगतिम् प्रति for the attainment of pleasure and lordship.No commentary.
415a7f5afd76…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.