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तेषामेवानुकम्पार्थमहमज्ञानजं तमः। नाशयाम्यात्मभावस्थो ज्ञानदीपेन भास्वता।।10.11।।

teṣhām evānukampārtham aham ajñāna-jaṁ tamaḥ nāśhayāmyātma-bhāva-stho jñāna-dīpena bhāsvatā

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 10, Verse 11
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Out of mere compassion for them, I, dwelling within their selves, destroy the darkness born of ignorance with the luminous lamp of knowledge.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: out of compassion, dwelling in their hearts, Krishna dispels the darkness born of ignorance with the shining lamp of knowledge, again describing clarity as something compassionately given rather than only self-earned through pure willpower.

In life: real breakthroughs in understanding often feel less like something you forced into existence and more like something that finally became clear once the conditions were right.

Teaching: hold your own effort toward understanding lightly, doing the work but also allowing that clarity sometimes arrives with a quality closer to grace than pure willed accomplishment.

teṣhāmfor them
evaonly
anukampā-arthamout of compassion
ahamI
ajñāna-jamborn of ignorance
tamaḥdarkness
nāśhayāmidestroy
ātma-bhāvawithin their hearts
sthaḥdwelling
jñānaof knowledge
dīpenawith the lamp
bhāsvatāluminous

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
10.11 तेषाम् for them? एव mere? अनुकम्पार्थम् out of compassion? अहम् I? अज्ञानजम् born of ignorance? तमः darkness? नाशयामि (I) destroy? आत्मभावस्थः dwelling within their self? ज्ञानदीपेन by the lamp of knowledge? भास्वता luminous.Commentary Luminous lamp of knowledge The Lord dwells in the heart of the devotees who constantly think of Him and destroys the veil or the darkness born of ignorance due to the absence of discrimination? by the luminous lamp of knowledge fed by the oil of pure devotion? fanned by the wind of profound meditation on Him? provided with the wick of right intuition? generated by the constant cultivation of celibacy? piety and other divine virtues held in the chambers of the heart free from worldliness? placed in the innermost recesses of the mind free from the wind of senseattractions (withdrawn from the objects of the senses) and untainted by likes and dislikes? and shining with the light of knowledge of the Self caused by the constant practice of meditation.The lamp is not in need of an instrument or means or any sort of practice for the removal of darkness. The generation of the light itself is ite sufficient to remove the darkness. As soon as the darkness is removed by the light? the pot? the chair and the other articles are seen. Even so the dawn of knowledge of the Self itself is ite sufficient to remove ignorance. No other Karma or,practice is necessary. After the ignorance is removed by the knowledge of the Self? Brahman alone shines in Its pristine glory.