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यान्ति देवव्रता देवान् पितृ़न्यान्ति पितृव्रताः। भूतानि यान्ति भूतेज्या यान्ति मद्याजिनोऽपि माम्।।9.25।।

yānti deva-vratā devān pitṝīn yānti pitṛi-vratāḥ bhūtāni yānti bhūtejyā yānti mad-yājino ’pi mām

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 9, Verse 25
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The worshippers of the gods go to them; the ancestor-worshippers go to the manes; the worshippers of the deities who preside over the elements go to them; but My devotees come to Me.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: worshippers of gods go to the gods, worshippers of ancestors go to the ancestors, worshippers of spirits go to the spirits, but Krishna's worshippers come to him, restating the earlier point about different devotions leading to correspondingly different, and differently lasting, outcomes.

In life: where you direct your sustained devotion and attention genuinely shapes where you end up, not just what you experience along the way.

Teaching: be deliberate about what you're actually directing your deepest devotion toward, since this verse suggests the destination really does correspond to that choice, not just the experience gained along the way.

yāntigo
deva-vratāḥworshipers of celestial gods
devānamongst the celestial gods
pitṝīnto the ancestors
yāntigo
pitṛi-vratāworshippers of ancestors
bhūtānito the ghosts
yāntigo
bhūta-ijyāḥworshippers of ghosts
yāntigo
matmy
yājinaḥdevotees
apiand
māmto me

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
9.25 यान्ति go? देवव्रताः worshippers of the gods? देवान् to the gods? पितृ़न् to the Pitris or ancestors? यान्ति go? पितृव्रताः worshippers of the Pitris? भूतानि to the Bhutas? यान्ति go? भूतेज्याः the worshippers of the Bhutas? यान्ति go? मद्याजिनः My worshippers? अपि also? माम् to Me.Commentary The worshippers of the manes such as the Agnisvattas who perform Sraaddha and other rites in devotion to their ancestors go to the manes. Those who worship the gods with devotion and vows go to them.Bhutas are elemental beings lower than the gods but higher than human beigns they are the Vinayakas? the hosts of Matris? the four Bhaginis and the like.Those who devote themselves to the gods attain the form of those gods at death. Similar is the fate of those who worship the manes (their own ancestors) or the Bhutas. The fruit of the worship is in accordance with the knowledge? faith? offering and nature of worship of the devotee.Though the exertion is the same? people do not worship Me on account of their ignorance. Conseently they get very little reward.My devotees obtain endless fruit. They do not come back to this mortal world. It is also easy for them to worship Me. How (Cf.VII.23)