TEXT 23

VERŠ 23

Devanagari

Dévanágarí

येऽप्यन्यदेवताभक्ता यजन्ते श्रद्धयान्विता: ।
तेऽपि मामेव कौन्तेय यजन्त्यविधिपूर्वकम् ॥ २३ ॥

Text

Verš

ye ’py anya-devatā-bhaktā
yajante śraddhayānvitāḥ
te ’pi mām eva kaunteya
yajanty avidhi-pūrvakam

Synonyms

Synonyma

ye — those who; api — also; anya — of other; devatā — gods; bhaktāḥ — devotees; yajante — worship; śraddhayā anvitāḥ — with faith; te — they; api — also; mām — Me; eva — only; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; yajanti — they worship; avidhi-pūrvakam — in a wrong way.

ye — tí, ktorí; api — tiež; anya — iných; devatā — polobohov; bhaktāḥ — oddaní; yajante — uctievajú; śraddhayā anvitāḥ — s vierou; te — oni; api — tiež; mām — Mňa; eva — len; kaunteya — ó, syn Kuntī; yajanti — uctievajú; avidhi-pūrvakam — nesprávnym spôsobom.

Translation

Překlad

Those who are devotees of other gods and who worship them with faith actually worship only Me, O son of Kuntī, but they do so in a wrong way.

Tí, ktorí sú oddaní rôznym polobohom a uctievajú ich s vierou, uctievajú v skutočnosti iba Mňa, ó, syn Kuntī, no nesprávne.

Purport

Význam

“Persons who are engaged in the worship of demigods are not very intelligent, although such worship is offered to Me indirectly,” Kṛṣṇa says. For example, when a man pours water on the leaves and branches of a tree without pouring water on the root, he does so without sufficient knowledge or without observing regulative principles. Similarly, the process of rendering service to different parts of the body is to supply food to the stomach. The demigods are, so to speak, different officers and directors in the government of the Supreme Lord. One has to follow the laws made by the government, not by the officers or directors. Similarly, everyone is to offer his worship to the Supreme Lord only. That will automatically satisfy the different officers and directors of the Lord. The officers and directors are engaged as representatives of the government, and to offer some bribe to the officers and directors is illegal. This is stated here as avidhi-pūrvakam. In other words, Kṛṣṇa does not approve the unnecessary worship of the demigods.

Śrī Kṛṣṇa hovorí: „Ľudia, ktorí uctievajú polobohov, nepatria k najmúdrejším, aj keď také uctievanie je nepriamo určené Mne.“ Keď napríklad polievame listy a konáre stromu a nezavlažujeme koreň, opomíname základné pravidlá a chováme sa hlúpo. Podobne dodávame živiny žalúdku, a nie iným častiam tela. Dá sa povedať, že polobohovia sú hlavnými predstaviteľmi vlády Najvyššieho Pána. To znamená, že by sme mali uctievať len Najvyššieho Pána, čo automaticky uspokojí všetkých zástupcov a predstaviteľov vlády. Predstavitelia vlády sú jej reprezentantmi, no ich podplácanie je protizákonné. V tomto verši je to potvrdené slovami avidhi-pūrvakam. Śrī Kṛṣṇa teda neschvaľuje zbytočné uctievanie polobohov.