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Adhyāyas / Jñāna-Vijñāna Yogaḥ / verse 27

Mūla — the verse

Gita Press numbering
इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत। सर्वभूतानि संमोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप
ichchhā-dveṣha-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata sarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa
Anuṣṭubh

Translation

Swami Gambhīrānanda · follows Śaṅkara-bhāṣya

O scion of the Bharata dynasty, O destroyer of foes, due to the delusion of duality arising from likes and dislikes, all creatures become bewildered upon their birth.

हिन्दी अनुवाद — Swami Tejomayānanda

हे परन्तप भारत ! इच्छा और द्वेष से उत्पन्न द्वन्द्वमोह से भूतमात्र उत्पत्ति काल में ही संमोह (अविवेक) को प्राप्त होते हैं।।

Pronunciation — Vaamshii

from Vaamshii
इच्छाद् वेष समुत् थेन
द्वन्द्व मोहेन भारत
सर् व भूतानि सम् मोहम्
सर् गे यान्ति परन् तप
॥ २७ ॥
Read each split group as one breath-unit; hyphens join pādas kept whole for the meter or a compound word. Symbols: # upadhmānīya (visarga before p/ph), % jihvāmūlīya (visarga before k/kh), ऽ avagraha (an elided a). Full method →

Word by word

padārtha
ichchhādesire
dveṣhaaversion
samutthenaarise from
dvandvaof duality
mohenafrom the illusion
bhārataArjun, descendant of Bharat
sarvaall
bhūtāniliving beings
sammohaminto delusion
sargesince birth
yāntienter
parantapaArjun, conqueror of enemies

Themes

from The Thematic Companion to the Bhagavad Gītā
FoolsCosmology

Meaning — Questions & Solutions

from Q&A with KnA
7.27How do beings fall into folly and ignorance?

“By the delusion of the pairs of opposites (dvandva), sprung from desire and aversion, all beings fall into confusion at birth.” The engine of ignorance is here laid bare: from the two primal reactions, liking and disliking, arise all the polar pairs — pleasure and pain, gain and loss, honour and dishonour — and the mind, tossed endlessly between the poles, never rests long enough to see clearly. This is why Samatva — even-mindedness towards the pairs — is the BG's constant prescription: to still the see-saw is to lift the fog.