Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 32

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Observing the Armies on the Battlefield of Kuruksetra
Chapter 1: Verse-43

utsanna-kula-dharmanam
manusyanam janärdana
narake niyatam väso
bhavatity anususruma[1]

TRANSLATION

O Krsna, maintainer of the people, I have heard by disciplic succession that those who destroy family traditions dwell always in hell.

PURPORT

Arjuna bases his argument not on his own personal experience, but on what he has heard from the authorities. That is the way of receiving real knowledge. One cannot reach the real point of factual knowledge without being helped by the right person who is already established in that knowledge. There is a system in the varnäsrama institution by which before death one has to undergo the process of atonement for his sinful activities. One who is always engaged in sinful activities must utilize the process of atonement called the präyascitta. Without doing so, one surely will be transferred to hellish planets to undergo miserable lives as the result of sinful activities.


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References

  1. utsanna=spoiled; kula-dharmänäm=of those who have the family traditions; manusyanam=of such men; janärdana=O Krsna; narake=in hell;
    niyatam=always; väsah=residence; bhavati=it so becomes; iti=thus;
    anususruma=I have heard by disciplic succession.

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