Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 9, Verse 20
त्रैविद्या मां सोमपाः पूतपापा यज्ञैरिष्ट्वा स्वर्गतिं प्रार्थयन्ते । ते पुण्यमासाद्य सुरेन्द्रलोक- मश्नन्ति दिव्यान्दिवि देवभोगान्
traividyā māṃ somapāḥ pūtapāpā yajñairiṣṭvā svargatiṃ prārthayante | te puṇyamāsādya surendraloka- maśnanti divyāndivi devabhogān
Translation
Men of the three Vedas, the soma-drinkers, purified from sin, worshipping Me by sacrifices, pray for the goal of heaven; they reach the holy world of the Lord of the Gods and enjoy in heaven the heavenly pleasures of the Gods.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- traividyāḥ
- three, sciences (Vedas), whose, they
- mām
- me
- somapāḥ
- the soma, drink, thus
- pūtapāpāḥ
- purified, sin, whose, they
- yajñaiḥ
- with sacrifices
- iṣṭvā
- having sacrificed
- svargatim
- heaven-way
- prārthayante
- ask
- te
- they
- puṇyam
- pure
- āsādya
- having reached
- surendralokam
- of the Gods, (of) Indra, the world
- aśnanti
- eat
- divyān
- divine
- divi
- in heaven
- devabhogān
- of Gods, the enjoyments
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
Men who know the three Vedas — the Ṛk, the Sāman and the Yajus; who drink Soma and are thereby purified from sins; who worship Me as the Vasus and other gods by sacrifices such as the Agniṣṭoma; who seek for Svarga as the reward of their sacrifices — they go to the world of Indra who had performed a hundred sacrifices, and there enjoy supernatural (aprākṛta) pleasures.