Chapter 4 Overview
Verse 4.11
ये यथा मां प्रपद्यन्ते तांस्तथैव भजाम्यहम्। मम वर्त्मानुवर्तन्ते मनुष्याः पार्थ सर्वशः।।4.11।।
ye yathā māṁ prapadyante tāns tathaiva bhajāmyaham mama vartmānuvartante manuṣhyāḥ pārtha sarvaśhaḥ
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 11
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
In whatever way men approach Me, even so do I reward them; My path do men tread in all ways, O Arjuna.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: as people approach Krishna, so he rewards them, everyone follows some path to him, in their own way, a striking claim about many valid approaches to the same ultimate reality.
In life: people pursue meaning, connection, or purpose through very different paths, career, family, faith, art, and dismissing paths unlike your own often misses the underlying similarity.
Teaching: be less quick to judge someone else's path to meaning just because it looks different from yours. Ask what it's actually accomplishing for them.
yewho
yathāin whatever way
māmunto me
prapadyantesurrender
tānthem
tathāso
evacertainly
bhajāmireciprocate
ahamI
mamamy
vartmapath
anuvartantefollow
manuṣhyāḥmen
pārthaArjun, the son of Pritha
sarvaśhaḥin all respects
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
4.11 ये who? यथा in whatever way? माम् Me? प्रपद्यन्ते approach? तान् them? तथा so? एव even? भजामि reward? अहम् I? मम My? वर्त्म path? अनुवर्तन्ते follow? मनुष्याः men? पार्थ O Partha? सर्वशः in all ways.Commentary I reward men by bestowing on them the objects they desire in accordance with their ways and the motives with which they seek Me. If anyone worships Me with selfish motives I grant him the objects he desires. If he worships Me unselfishly for attaining knowledge of the Self? I grant him Moksha or final liberation. I am not at all partial to anyone. (Cf.VII.21andIX.23).