30 June 2012

SANKARASRAMAM

Chapter 2: Contents of the Gita Summarized
Verse: 42
Verses 42-43
yam imam pushpitam vacam
pravadanty avipascitah
veda-vada-ratah partha
nanyad astiti vadinah
kamatmanah svarga-para
janma-karma-phala-pradam
kriya-visesha-bahulam
bhogaisvarya-gatim prati

Translation:
Men of small knowledge are very much attached to the flowery words of the Vedas, which recommend various fruitive activities for elevation to heavenly planets, resultant good birth, power, and so forth. Being desirous of sense gratification and opulent life, they say that there is nothing more than this.

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