Sanskrit · Devanagari
अपि चेदसि पापेभ्यः सर्वेभ्यः पापकृत्तमः। सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं सन्तरिष्यसि ॥
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api cedasi pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpakṛttamaḥ sarvaṃ jñānaplavenaiva vṛjinaṃ santariṣyasi
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Even if you are the most sinful of all sinful men
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।4.36।। अपि चेत् असि पापेभ्यः पापकृद्भ्यः सर्वेभ्यः अतिशयेन पापकृत् पापकृत्तमः सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव ज्ञानमेव प्लवं कृत्वा वृजिनं वृजिनार्णवं पापसमुद्रं संतरिष्यसि। धर्मोऽपि इह मुमुक्षोः पापम् उच्यते।।ज्ञानं कथं नाशयति पापमिति दृष्टान्त उच्यते
c0ed0ccf0662…Rāmānuja
4.36 Even though you be the most sinful of all sinners, you will completely cross over the sea of sins previoulsy accumulated, with the boat of knowledge concerning the self.
825e5d5f9a28…Swami Sivananda
4.36 अपि even? चेत् if? असि (thou) art? पापेभ्यः than sinners? सर्वेभ्यः (than) all? पापकृत्तमः most sinful? सर्वम् all? ज्ञानप्लवेन by the raft of knowledge? एव alone? वृजिनम् sin? सन्तरिष्यसि (thou) shalt cross.Commentary You can cross the ocean of sin with the boat of the knowledge of the Self. (Cf.IX.30)
77ce56da4317…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.