Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 16, Verse 10
काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः । मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः
kāmamāśritya duṣpūraṃ dambhamānamadānvitāḥ | mohādgṛhītvāsadgrāhānpravartante'śucivratāḥ
Translation
Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride and arrogance, holding unwholesome views through delusion, they work with unholy resolve;
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- kāmam
- desire
- āśritya
- having based on
- duṣpūram
- hard to fill
- dambhamānamadānvitāḥ
- by vanity, and, by pride, and, by intoxication, and, pursued
- mohāt
- from delusion
- gṛhītvā
- having held
- asadgrāhān
- evil addictions
- pravartante
- engage (in action)
- aśucivratāḥ
- impure, vows, whose, they
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Through their immense delusion they entertain unwholesome doctrines, and undertake actions accordingly with impure resolutions.