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BG 16.10 — 16.10 Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding evil ideas through delusion, they work with impure resolves. | Live Gita
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काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः |
मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः ||१६-१०||

kāmamāśritya duṣpūraṃ dambhamānamadānvitāḥ . mohādgṛhītvāsadgrāhānpravartante.aśucivratāḥ ||16-10||


।।16.10।। दम्भ, मान और मद से युक्त कभी न पूर्ण होने वाली कामनाओं का आश्रय लिये, मोहवश मिथ्या धारणाओं को ग्रहण करके ये अशुद्ध संकल्पों के लोग जगत् में कार्य करते हैं।।

Word-by-word meanings

16.10 कामम् desire? आश्रित्य abiding in? दुष्पूरम् insatiable? दम्भमानमदान्विताः full of hypocrisy? pride and,arrogance? मोहात् through delusion? गृहीत्वा having held? असद्ग्राहान् evil ideas? प्रवर्तन्ते they work? अशुचिव्रताः with impure resolves.Commentary These soulless malevolent persons perform cruel and sinful actions. Their minds are saturated with vanity? conceit and arrogance. They entertain in their minds unholy resolves and unreasonable ideas. They harbour insatiable desires in their

Commentaries

Non-dualism. The individual self and Brahman are one. The world is appearance (maya). Liberation through knowledge.

Sri Shankaracharya

।।16.10।।तथा वे --, कभी पूर्ण न की जा सकनेवाली दुष्पूर कामनाका -- इच्छाविशेषका आश्रय -- अवलम्बन कर? पाखण्ड? मान और मदसे युक्त हुए? अशुद्धाचारी -- जिनके आचरण बहुत ही बुरे हैं ऐसे मनुष्य? मोहसे -- अज्ञानसे मिथ्या आग्रहोंको? अर्थात् अशुभ सिद्धान्तोंको ग्रहण करके -- स्वीकार करके संसारमें बर्तते हैं।

Swami Gambirananda

16.10 Giving themselves up to insatiable passion, filled with vanity, pride and arrogance, adopting bad abjectives due to delusion, and having impure resolves, they engage in actions.

This interpretation draws on the Advaita tradition and may not represent the view of any single school. For authoritative guidance within a specific tradition, seek a qualified teacher.

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