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अपि चेदसि पापेभ्यः सर्वेभ्यः पापकृत्तमः। सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं सन्तरिष्यसि।।4.36।।

api ched asi pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpa-kṛit-tamaḥ sarvaṁ jñāna-plavenaiva vṛijinaṁ santariṣhyasi

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 4, Verse 36
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Even if thou art the most sinful of all sinners, yet thou shalt surely cross over all sins by the raft of knowledge.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: even if you were the worst of sinners, you would cross over all sin by the boat of knowledge alone, a strikingly generous promise that no past record disqualifies someone from this kind of clarity.

In life: people sometimes assume their past mistakes permanently bar them from real change or peace, this verse directly rejects that assumption.

Teaching: if you're carrying shame from your past as proof you can't change, treat that belief as false. Understanding and change remain available regardless of what came before.

apieven
chetif
asiyou are
pāpebhyaḥsinners
sarvebhyaḥof all
pāpa-kṛit-tamaḥmost sinful
sarvamall
jñāna-plavenaby the boat of divine knowledge
evacertainly
vṛijinamsin
santariṣhyasiyou shall cross over

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
4.36 अपि even? चेत् if? असि (thou) art? पापेभ्यः than sinners? सर्वेभ्यः (than) all? पापकृत्तमः most sinful? सर्वम् all? ज्ञानप्लवेन by the raft of knowledge? एव alone? वृजिनम् sin? सन्तरिष्यसि (thou) shalt cross.Commentary You can cross the ocean of sin with the boat of the knowledge of the Self. (Cf.IX.30)