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काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः।मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः।।16.10।।

kāmam āśhritya duṣhpūraṁ dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ mohād gṛihītvāsad-grāhān pravartante ’śhuchi-vratāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 16, Verse 10
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Filled with insatiable desires, full of hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance, holding evil ideas due to delusion, they work with impure intentions.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: given to insatiable desire, filled with hypocrisy, pride, and arrogance, holding to wrong views through delusion, they act with impure resolve, continuing to trace the compounding effect of the underlying worldview into specific character traits.

In life: insatiable desire specifically compounds with hypocrisy and pride to produce an especially stubborn, self-justifying pattern that becomes progressively harder to interrupt the longer it continues.

Teaching: if you notice insatiable desire compounding with self-justifying pride in some area of your own life, address it earlier rather than later, this verse suggests the combination becomes progressively more entrenched and harder to interrupt the longer it's allowed to continue.

kāmamlust
āśhrityaharboring
duṣhpūraminsatiable
dambhahypocrisy
mānaarrogance
mada-anvitāḥclinging to false tenets
mohātthe illusioned
gṛihītvābeing attracted to
asatimpermanent
grāhānthings
pravartantethey flourish
aśhuchi-vratāḥwith impure resolve

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
16.10 कामम् desire? आश्रित्य abiding in? दुष्पूरम् insatiable? दम्भमानमदान्विताः full of hypocrisy? pride and,arrogance? मोहात् through delusion? गृहीत्वा having held? असद्ग्राहान् evil ideas? प्रवर्तन्ते they work? अशुचिव्रताः with impure resolves.Commentary These soulless malevolent persons perform cruel and sinful actions. Their minds are saturated with vanity? conceit and arrogance. They entertain in their minds unholy resolves and unreasonable ideas. They harbour insatiable desires in their hearts. Just as a monkey becomes more and more intoxicated if wine if given to it? so also the older they grow the more and more arrogant and lustful do they become. They cause the ruin and death of those around them. They boast of their own actions and treat others with great contempt. They are very much attached to their bodies. They worship their bodies. Their passion is boundless. They are stupid and obstinate and so they have no firm determination.Desire is insatiable like fire. Enjoyment cannot bring about satisfaction of the desires. The more you enjoy? the stronger does the desire become. After an object is enjoyed? there springs up a desire to continue the enjoyment for ever. You take recourse to all sorts of devices to preserve the objects.Although a man is not righteous he pretends to be a man of righteousness. This is hypocrisy. Although a man is not worthy of being honoured? he claims to be so. This is Mana (pride). There is false dignity. Although a man does not possess great things he superimposes them on himself. This is Mada.These Asuras make impure resolves. I will worship such and such a deity by repeating such and such a Mantra and get hold of such and such a woman. I will repeat such and such a Mantra and kill such and such a man.