Sanskrit · Devanagari
ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति। एवं त्रयीधर्ममनुप्रपन्ना गतागतं कामकामा लभन्ते ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
te taṃ bhuktvā svargalokaṃ viśālaṃ kṣīṇe puṇye martyalokaṃ viśanti evaṃ trayīdharmamanuprapannā gatāgataṃ kāmakāmā labhante
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882they enter the mortal world when (their) merit is exhausted. Thus those who wish for objects of desire and resort to the ordinances of the three ( Vedas )
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।9.21।। --,ते तं भुक्त्वा स्वर्गलोकं विशालं विस्तीर्णं क्षीणे पुण्ये मर्त्यलोकं विशन्ति आविशन्ति। एवं यथोक्तेन प्रकारेण त्रयीधर्मं केवलं वैदिकं कर्म अनुप्रपन्नाः गतागतं गतं च आगतं च गतागतं गमनागमनं कामकामाः कामान् कामयन्ते इति कामकामाः लभन्ते गतागतमेव? न तु स्वातन्त्र्यं क्वचित् लभन्ते इत्यर्थः।।ये पुनः निष्कामाः सम्यग्दर्शनिः --,
5e364caf4bb6…Rāmānuja
9.21 After enjoying the spacious world of heaven, they return to the world of mortals when the meritorious Karma forming the cause of that experience is exhausted. Thus, lacking in the knowledge established in the Vedanta and desiring only the attainment of heaven etc., they who follow the teaching of the three Vedas on sacrificial rites, come and go. After enjoying the trifling and transient pleasures of heaven, they return to Samsara again and again. But the great souls meditating on Me, who am incomparably dear to them, attain boundless and unsurpassed bliss and do not return to Samsara. Sri Krsna desribes their distinguishing features:
ffae2de3fe43…Swami Sivananda
9.21 ते they? तम् that? भुक्त्वा having enjoyed? स्वर्गलोकम् heavenworld? विशालम् vast? क्षीणे at the exhaustion of? पुण्ये merit? मर्त्यलोकम् the world of mortals? विशन्ति enter? एवम् thus? त्रयीधर्मम् of the three Vedas? अनुप्रपन्नाः abiding by? गतागतम् the state of goind and returning? कामकामाः desiring desires? लभन्ते attain.Commentary When the accumulated merit (the cause of heavenly pleasures) is exhausted? they descend to this world. They come and go. They have no independence.The Dharma of the three Mere Vedic ritual? enjoined by the three Vedas. KamaKamah The people whose minds are filled with Vasanas or worldly tendencies.
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