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Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16.10

kamam asritya duspuram

dambha-mana-madanvitah

mohad grhitvasad-grahan

pravartante ’suci-vratah

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Taking shelter of insatiable lust and absorbed in the conceit of pride and false prestige, the demoniac, thus illusioned, are always sworn to unclean work, attracted by the impermanent.

Author Name:-Sri Ramanuja

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Sri Ramanuja

16.10 Turning to ‘insatiable desires,’ viz., which concern objects impossible to get; seizing through ‘delusion,’ viz., through ignorance that such desires can be fulfilled only with ‘unjustly acquired wealth,’ viz., with wealth unlawfully hoarded, and following impious vows, viz., associated with the vows prohibited in the Sastras; they do actions ‘that are full of ostentation, pride and arrogance.’

Author Name:-Sri Adi Shankaracharya

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Sri Adi Shankaracharya

16.10 And asirtya, giving themselves upto; duspuram, insatiable; kamam, passion-a kind of desire; dambha-mana-mada-anvitah, filled with vanity, pride and arrogance; grhitva, adopting; asad-grahan, bad objectives, evil intentions; mohat, due to delusion, owing to non-discrimination; and asuci-vratah, having impure resolves; they pravartante, engage in actions in the world. Further,

Author Name:-Sri Madhvacharya

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Sri Madhavacharya

Lord Krishna is reiterating that normal desires are very difficult to satisfy while emphasizing that degraded and degenerative desires are even more difficult to fulfill. Such vast undertakings and prodigious schemes which are so difficult to accomplish create great distress and frustration in the attempt.

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Slogam 10

Bhagavad Gita Chapter 16.10

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