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दैवी सम्पद्विमोक्षाय निबन्धायासुरी मता।मा शुचः सम्पदं दैवीमभिजातोऽसि पाण्डव।।16.5।।

daivī sampad vimokṣhāya nibandhāyāsurī matā mā śhuchaḥ sampadaṁ daivīm abhijāto ’si pāṇḍava

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 16, Verse 5
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The divine nature is deemed conducive to liberation, and the demonic to bondage. Grieve not, O Arjuna, for you are born with divine endowments.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the divine qualities are said to lead to liberation, the demonic to bondage, do not grieve, Arjuna, you are born with a divine nature, offering Arjuna direct, personal reassurance about which category he actually belongs to.

In life: sometimes what someone genuinely needs isn't more analysis of good and bad qualities in the abstract, but direct, personal reassurance about where they themselves actually stand.

Teaching: when someone close to you is anxiously wondering whether they're fundamentally a good or bad person, consider offering direct, personal reassurance the way Krishna does here, rather than only providing an abstract framework and leaving them to self-diagnose alone.

daivīdivine
sampatqualities
vimokṣhāyatoward liberation
nibandhāyato bondage
āsurīdemoniac qualities
matāare considered
mādo not
śhuchaḥgrieve
sampadamvirtues
daivīmsaintly
abhijātaḥborn
asiyou are
pāṇḍavaArjun, the son of Pandu

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
16.5 दैवी divine? सम्पत् state? विमोक्षाय for liberation? निबन्धाय for bondage? आसुरी the demoniacal? मता is deemed? मा not? शुचः grieve? सम्पदम् state? दैवीम् the divine? अभिजातः one born for? असि (thou) art? पाण्डव O Pandava.Commentary Sampat Endowment? wealthy state? nature? virtue.Moksha Liberation from the bondage of Samsara? release from the round of birth and death. The,divine nature leads to salvation the demoniacl nature? to bondage.As Arjuna was already griefstricken and dejected? Lord Krishna assures him not to feel alarmed at this description of the Asuric alities which bring grief and delusion? as he was born with Sattvic tendencies? leading towards salvation. Arjuna? on hearing the words of Lord Krishna? might have thought within himself? Do I possess divine nature or demoniacal nature The Lord? in order to remove Arjunas doubt? said? Grieve not? O Arjuna? thou art born with divine alities. Thou art fortunate. Thou mayest attain to the happiness of Selfrealisation.Do not think? O Arjuna? that by engaging yourself in battle and killing people you will become an Asura. Grieve not on this score. You will establish the kingdom of righteousness by fighting this righteous battle.