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असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम्।अपरस्परसम्भूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम्।।16.8।।

asatyam apratiṣhṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśhvaram aparaspara-sambhūtaṁ kim anyat kāma-haitukam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 16, Verse 8
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
They say, "This universe is without truth, without a moral basis, without a God, brought about by mutual union, with lust as its cause; what else?"

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: they say the world is without truth, without a moral basis, without a Lord, born of mutual union, caused by lust alone, and nothing more, describing a specific, corrosive worldview, that nothing beyond immediate desire actually matters, as underlying the demonic pattern.

In life: a worldview that reduces everything to nothing beyond immediate personal desire tends to justify increasingly harmful behavior over time, since nothing beyond the immediate desire is treated as real or binding.

Teaching: notice if you've slipped into treating anything beyond your own immediate wants as unreal or irrelevant in some area of your life, that specific worldview shift is named here as the actual root of the more visibly harmful behavior that tends to follow from it.

asatyamwithout absolute truth
apratiṣhṭhamwithout any basis
tethey
jagatthe world
āhuḥsay
anīśhvaramwithout a God
aparasparawithout cause
sambhūtamcreated
kimwhat
anyatother
kāma-haitukamfor sexual gratification only

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
16.8 असत्यम् without truth? अप्रतिष्ठम् without (moral) basis? ते they? जगत् the world? आहुः say? अनीश्वरम् without a God? अपरस्परसम्भूतम् brought about by mutual union? किम् what? अन्यत else? कामहैतुकम् with lust for its cause.Commentary They hold that the universe is without any substratum or support or an undying basic reality.This is a description of the opinion of atheists like the Charvakas and other materialists. They do not believe in the existence of Brahman Who is the support of this world. They do not even accept the existence of an Isvara in this world. They say We are unreal. Therefore this world also is unreal? the scriptures which declare the truth are also unreal. What else but lust can be the cause of this universe Sexual passion is the sole cause of all living creatures. There is no such thing as the theory of Karma. The whole world is caused by the mutual union of man and woman under the impulse of lust. There is neither virtue nor vice. There is no Lord Who dispenses the fruits of actions of the individuals according to virtue and vice. Dharma and Adharma are not the basis of this world. Sexual desire is the sole basis for this universe. This world is a world of chance. They are not endowed with the faculty of introspection. They are ignorant of the field (Nature) and knower of the field (God).Mutual union Sexual union it may mean the union of atoms. The world arose from the combination of atoms according to the Vaiseshikas.