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न मां दुष्कृतिनो मूढाः प्रपद्यन्ते नराधमाः। माययापहृतज्ञाना आसुरं भावमाश्रिताः।।7.15।।

na māṁ duṣhkṛitino mūḍhāḥ prapadyante narādhamāḥ māyayāpahṛita-jñānā āsuraṁ bhāvam āśhritāḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 7, Verse 15
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
The evil-doers and the deluded, who are the lowest of men, do not seek Me; those whose knowledge is destroyed by illusion follow the ways of demons.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the wicked, deluded, and those of demonic nature, whose knowledge is stolen by illusion, do not take refuge in Krishna, naming specific inner conditions, delusion, wickedness, that block this refuge specifically.

In life: someone caught in active self-deception rarely responds to appeals made to their better judgment, since the very faculty being appealed to is what's compromised.

Teaching: when trying to help someone caught in clear self-deception or harmful patterns, recognize that appeals to reason alone may not land until the underlying delusion itself is addressed.

nanot
māmunto me
duṣhkṛitinaḥthe evil doers
mūḍhāḥthe ignorant
prapadyantesurrender
nara-adhamāḥone who lazily follows one’s lower nature
māyayāby God’s material energy
apahṛita jñānāḥthose with deluded intellect
āsuramdemoniac
bhāvamnature
āśhritāḥsurrender

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
7.15 न not? माम् to Me? दुष्कृतिनः evildoers? मूढाः the deluded? प्रपद्यन्ते seek? नराधमाः the lowest of men?,मायया by Maya? अपहृतज्ञानाः deprived of knowledge? आसुरम् belonging to demons? भावम् nature? आश्रिताः having taken to.Commentary These three kinds of people have no discrimination between right and wrong? the Real and the unreal. They commit murder? robbery? theft and other kinds of atrocious actions. They speak untruth and injure others in a variety of ways. Those who follow the ways of the demons take the body as the Self like Vivochana and worship it with flowers? scents? unguents? nice clothes and palatable foods of various sorts. They are deluded souls. They try to nourish their body and do various sorts of evil actions to attain this end. Therefore they do not worship Me. Ignorance is the root cause of all these evils. (Cf.XVI.16and20)