BHAGAVAD GITA - As It Is. Chapter 1
(Continued)
Chapter 1. Observing the Armies
on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
TEXT 43
utsanna-kula-dharmanam
manusyanam janardana
narake niyatam vaso
bhavatity anususruma
SYNONYMS
utsanna--spoiled; kula-dharmanam--of those who have the family
traditions; manusyanam--of such men; janardana--O Krsna; narake--in hell; niyatam--always; vasah--residence; bhavati--it so becomes; iti--thus; anususruma--I have heard by disciplic
succession.
TRANSLATION
O
Krsna, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that
those who destroy family traditions dwell always in hell.
PURPORT
Arjuna
bases his argument not on his own personal experience, but on what he has heard
from the authorities. That is the way of receiving real knowledge. One cannot
reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by the right
person who is already established in that knowledge. There is a system in the varnasrama institution by which one has to
undergo the process of ablution before death for his sinful activities. One who
is always engaged in sinful activities must utilize the process of ablution called
the prayascitta. Without doing so, one surely
will be transferred to hellish planets to undergo miserable lives as the result
of sinful activities.
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