Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 7, Verse 15
न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः । माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः
na māṃ duṣkṛtino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ | māyayāpahṛtajñānā āsuraṃ bhāvamāśritāḥ
Translation
Not Me do the evil-doers seek, the deluded, the vilest of men, deprived of wisdom by Illusion, following the ways of the Demons.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- na
- not
- mām
- to me
- duṣkṛtinaḥ
- evil-doers
- mūḍhāḥ
- deluded
- prapadyante
- approach
- narādhamāḥ
- among men, lowest
- māyayā
- by māyā
- apahṛtajñānāḥ
- torn away, wisdom, whose, they
- āsuram
- āsuric
- bhāvam
- nature
- āśritāḥ
- refuged (in)
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Me, the Supreme Lord, Nārāyaṇa. The ways of the Demons are cruelty, untruth, and the like.