Chapter 7 Overview
Verse 7.27
इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन द्वन्द्वमोहेन भारत। सर्वभूतानि संमोहं सर्गे यान्ति परन्तप।।7.27।।
ichchhā-dveṣha-samutthena dvandva-mohena bhārata sarva-bhūtāni sammohaṁ sarge yānti parantapa
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 7, Verse 27
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
O Bharata, all beings are subject to delusion at birth due to the delusion of the pairs of opposites arising from desire and aversion, O Parantapa.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: all beings are born into delusion due to the illusion of opposites arising from desire and aversion, again tracing ordinary confusion back specifically to the pull and push of wanting and not wanting.
In life: much of your daily confusion about what to do traces back to competing wants and aversions pulling you in different directions at once.
Teaching: when confused about a decision, try separating out the specific desires and aversions actually driving the confusion, naming them clearly often resolves more of the fog than more abstract deliberation would.
ichchhādesire
dveṣhaaversion
samutthenaarise from
dvandvaof duality
mohenafrom the illusion
bhārataArjun, descendant of Bharat
sarvaall
bhūtāniliving beings
sammohaminto delusion
sargesince birth
yāntienter
parantapaArjun, conqueror of enemies
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
7.27 इच्छाद्वेषसमुत्थेन arisen from desire and aversion? द्वन्द्वमोहेन by the delusion of the pairs of opposites? भारत O Bharata? सर्वभूतानि all beings? संमोहम् to delusion? सर्गे at birth? यान्ति are subject? परन्तप O Parantapa (scorcher of the foes).Commentary Where there is pleasure there is Raga or attachment where there is pain there is Dvesha or aversion. There is the instinct in man to preserve his body. Man wishes to attain those objects which help the preservation of the body. He wishes to get rid of those objects which give pain to the body and the mind. On account of delusion caused by the pairs of opposites? desire and aversion spring up and man cannot get the knowledge of the things as they are? even of this external universe of senseexperience and it needs no saying that in a man whose intellect is overwhelmed by desire and aversion there cannot arise the transcendental knowledge of the innermost Self.Raga (attraction) and Dvesha (repulsion)? pleasure and pain? heat and cold? happiness and misery? joy and sorrow? success and failure? censure and priase? honour and dishonour are the Dvandvas or the pairs of opposites. Desire and aversion (or attraction and repulsion) induce delusion in all beings and serve as obstacles to the dawn of the knowledge of the Self.He whose intellect is obscured by the delusion caused by the pairs of opposites is not able to realise I am the Self. Therefore he does not adore Me as the Self.He who is a victim of RagaDvesha loses the power of discrimination. He wishes that pleasant objects should last for ever and that disagreeable or unpleasant objects should disappear immediately. How could this be Objects that are conditioned in time? space and causation will perish. That which is agreeable and pleasant now will become disagreeable and unpleasant after some time. The mind is ever fluctuating. It demands variety and gets disgusted with monotony.