यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा विशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः। तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोका स्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः।।11.29।।
yathā pradīptaṁ jvalanaṁ pataṅgā viśhanti nāśhāya samṛiddha-vegāḥ tathaiva nāśhāya viśhanti lokās tavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛiddha-vegāḥ
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A Reading - Rantideb
Why: as moths rush swiftly into a blazing flame to their own destruction, so do these worlds rush into Krishna's mouths to their own destruction, adding a second natural image, this time emphasizing the tragic, self-driven quality of the rushing rather than just its scale.
In life: sometimes people or systems genuinely do rush toward their own destruction through momentum and habit, even when a different path was technically available to them.
Teaching: notice patterns in your own life or in situations around you that resemble this moth-to-flame dynamic, momentum carrying something toward its own harm, and consider whether that momentum can actually still be interrupted before it completes.