3.38 As a fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust and as an embryo by the membrance, so are the embodied beings covered by this desire.
Sri Krsna teaches the mode of this envelopement:
3.38 धूमेन by smoke? आव्रियते is enveloped? वह्निः fire? यथा as? आदर्शः a mirror? मलेन by dust? च and? यथा as? उल्बेन by the amnion? आवृतः enveloped? गर्भः embryo? तथा so? तेन by it? इदम् this? आवृतम् enveloped.Commentary This means the universe. This also means knowledge. That means desire.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।3.38।। धूमेन सहजेन आव्रियते वह्निः प्रकाशात्मकः अप्रकाशात्मकेन यथा वा आदर्शो मलेन च यथा उल्बेन च जरायुणा गर्भवेष्टनेन आवृतः आच्छादितः गर्भः तथा तेन इदम् आवृतम्।।किं पुनस्तत् इदंशब्दवाच्यं यत् कामेनावृतमित्युच्यते
5dbb389fd234…Rāmānuja
3.38 As a fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror by dust and as an embryo by the membrance, so are the embodied beings covered by this desire. Sri Krsna teaches the mode of this envelopement:
f93d8177830c…Swami Sivananda
3.38 धूमेन by smoke? आव्रियते is enveloped? वह्निः fire? यथा as? आदर्शः a mirror? मलेन by dust? च and? यथा as? उल्बेन by the amnion? आवृतः enveloped? गर्भः embryo? तथा so? तेन by it? इदम् this? आवृतम् enveloped.Commentary This means the universe. This also means knowledge. That means desire.
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