TEXT 12

Devanagari

मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतस: ।
राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिता: ॥ १२ ॥

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Tekst

moghāśā mogha-karmāṇo
mogha-jñānā vicetasaḥ
rākṣasīm āsurīṁ caiva
prakṛtiṁ mohinīṁ śritāḥ

Synonyms

mogha-āśāḥ — baffled in their hopes; mogha-karmāṇaḥ — baffled in fruitive activities; mogha-jñānāḥ — baffled in knowledge; vicetasaḥ — bewildered; rākṣasīm — demonic; āsurīm — atheistic; ca — and; eva — certainly; prakṛtim — nature; mohinīm — bewildering; śritāḥ — taking shelter of.

mogha-āśāḥ — hvis håb forpurres; mogha-karmāṇaḥ — hvis frugtstræbende aktiviteter forpurres; mogha-jñānāḥ — hvis viden forpurres; vicetasaḥ — forvirrede; rākṣasīm — den dæmoniske; āsurīm — den ateistiske; ca — og; eva — afgjort; prakṛtim — natur; mohinīm — den forvirrende; śritāḥ — søger tilflugt hos.

Translation

Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.

De, der er således forvirrede, tiltrækkes af dæmoniske og ateistiske anskuelser. I denne vildledte tilstand forpurres alle deres håb om befrielse, deres frugtstræbende handlinger og deres kultivering af viden.

Purport

There are many devotees who assume themselves to be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service but at heart do not accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as the Absolute Truth. For them, the fruit of devotional service – going back to Godhead – will never be tasted. Similarly, those who are engaged in fruitive pious activities and who are ultimately hoping to be liberated from this material entanglement will never be successful either, because they deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. In other words, persons who mock Kṛṣṇa are to be understood to be demonic or atheistic. As described in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā, such demonic miscreants never surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore their mental speculations to arrive at the Absolute Truth bring them to the false conclusion that the ordinary living entity and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. With such a false conviction, they think that the body of any human being is now simply covered by material nature and that as soon as one is liberated from this material body there is no difference between God and himself. This attempt to become one with Kṛṣṇa will be baffled because of delusion. Such atheistic and demoniac cultivation of spiritual knowledge is always futile. That is the indication of this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge in the Vedic literature, like the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads, is always baffled.

FORKLARING: Der er mange hengivne, der anser sig selv for at være i Kṛṣṇa-bevidsthed og hengiven tjeneste, men inderst inde ikke accepterer Guddommens Højeste Personlighed, Kṛṣṇa, som den Absolutte Sandhed. De vil aldrig smage frugten af hengiven tjeneste, nemlig at vende tilbage til Guddommen. På samme måde vil de, der er optaget af frugtstræbende fromme handlinger, og som håber på i sidste ende at blive befriet fra denne materielle forvikling, heller aldrig opnå fuldendelse, for de ringeagter Guddommens Højeste Personlighed, Kṛṣṇa. De, der taler nedsættende om Kṛṣṇa, skal med andre ord forstås som værende dæmoniske eller ateistiske. Som beskrevet i Bhagavad-gītās kapitel 7 (vers 15) overgiver sådanne dæmoniske slyngler sig aldrig til Kṛṣṇa. Deres forsøg på at nå frem til den Absolutte Sandhed gennem intellektuelle spekulationer bringer dem derfor til den forkerte konklusion, at det almindelige levende væsen og Kṛṣṇa er én og samme ting. Underlagt en sådan falsk overbevisning tror de, at alle menneskekroppe nu blot er dækket af den materielle natur, og så snart man bliver befriet fra denne materielle krop, er der ingen forskel på Gud og én selv. Den slags forsøg på at blive ét med Kṛṣṇa vil blive forpurret på grund af illusion. En sådan ateistisk og dæmonisk kultivering af åndelig viden er altid omsonst. Det er, hvad der tilkendegives i dette vers. For sådanne personer er kultivering af kundskaben i vediske tekster som Vedānta-sūtra og Upaniṣaderne altid frugtesløs.

It is a great offense, therefore, to consider Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to be an ordinary man. Those who do so are certainly deluded because they cannot understand the eternal form of Kṛṣṇa. The Bṛhad-viṣṇu-smṛti clearly states:

Det er således en stor forseelse at anse Kṛṣṇa, Guddommens Højeste Personlighed, for at være et almindeligt menneske. De, der gør dette, er afgjort vildledte, for de kan ikke forstå Kṛṣṇas evige form. Der står klart og tydeligt i Bṛhad-viṣṇu-smṛti:

yo vetti bhautikaṁ dehaṁ
kṛṣṇasya paramātmanaḥ
sa sarvasmād bahiṣ-kāryaḥ
śrauta-smārta-vidhānataḥ
mukhaṁ tasyāvalokyāpi
sa-celaṁ snānam ācaret

“One who considers the body of Kṛṣṇa to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of the śruti and the smṛti. And if one by chance sees his face, one should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection.” People jeer at Kṛṣṇa because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will remain under delusion, and gradually they will regress to the darkest region of creation.

“Den, der anser Kṛṣṇas krop for at være materiel, bør vises bort fra alle śrutierne og smṛtiernes ritualer og aktiviteter. Og skulle man være så uheldig at se hans angigt, skal man øjeblikkeligt tage bad i Ganges for at rense sig selv for infektionen. Folk bespotter Kṛṣṇa, fordi de er misundelige på Guddommens Højeste Personlighed. Deres skæbne er helt sikkert at blive født gang på gang i ateistiske og dæmoniske livsformer. Deres virkelige kundskab vil for altid være tilsløret af illusion, og gradvist synker de ned til skabelsens mørkeste regioner.”