Sanskrit · Devanagari
कामैस्तैस्तैर्हृतज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्तेऽन्यदेवताः। तं तं नियममास्थाय प्रकृत्या नियताः स्वया ॥
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kāmaistaistairhṛtajñānāḥ prapadyante.anyadevatāḥ taṃ taṃ niyamamāsthāya prakṛtyā niyatāḥ svayā
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Those who are deprived of knowledge by various desires approach other divinities, observing various regulations, and controlled by their own natures.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।7.20।। कामैः तैस्तैः पुत्रपशुस्वर्गादिविषयैः हृतज्ञानाः अपहृतविवेकविज्ञानाः प्रपद्यन्ते अन्यदेवताः प्राप्नुवन्ति वासुदेवात् आत्मनः अन्याः देवताः तं तं नियमं देवताराधने प्रसिद्धो यो यो नियमः तं तम् आस्थाय आश्रित्य प्रकृत्या स्वभावेन जन्मान्तरार्जितसंस्कारविशेषेण नियताः नियमिताः स्वया आत्मीयया।।तेषां च कामिनाम्
2a3f11344cc6…Rāmānuja
7.20 All men of this world are 'controlled', i.e., constantly accompanied by their own nature consisting in the Vasanas (subtle impressions) resulting from relation with the objects formed of the Gunas. Their knowledge about My essential nature is robbed by various Karmas, i.e., by objects of desire corresponding to their Vasanas (subtle impressions) born of their Karmas and constituted of Gunas. In order to fulfil these various kinds of desires they take refuge in, i.e., seek and worship, other divinities who are regarded as different from Me, such as Indra and others, observing various disciplines, i.e., practising rituals which are specially meant to propitiate only these divinities.
33f5082d075a…Swami Sivananda
7.20 कामैः by desires? तैः तैः by this or that? हृतज्ञानाः those whose wisdom has been rent away? प्रपद्यन्ते approach? अन्यदेवताः other gods? तम् तम् this or that? नियमम् rite? आस्थाय having followed? प्रकृत्या by nature? नियताः led? स्वया by ones own.Commentary Those who desire wealth? children? the (small) Siddhis? etc.? are deprived of discrimination. They devote themselves to other minor gods such as Indra? Mitra? Varuna? etc.? impelled or driven by their own nature or Samskaras acired in their previous births. They perform some kinds of rites to propitiate these lower deities. (Cf.IX.23)
0941e87ac06b…These supplied texts come from the pinned VedicScriptures dataset under GPL-3.0 and await independent alignment review.