BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:67

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 18:67

 

idam te natapaskaya

nabhaktaya kadacana

na casusrusave vacyam

na ca mam yo 'bhyasuyati

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

idam--this; te--by you; na--never; atapaskaya--to one who is not

austere; na--never; abhaktaya--to one who is not a devotee;

kadacana--at any time; na--never; ca--also; asusrusave--to one who is

not engaged in devotional service; vacyam--to be spoken; na--never;

ca--also; mam--toward Me; yah--anyone who; abhyasuyati--is envious.

 

TRANSLATION

 

This confidential knowledge may never be explained to those who are

not austere, or devoted, or engaged in devotional service, nor to one

who is envious of Me.

 

PURPORT

 

Persons who have not undergone the austerities of the religious

process, who have never attempted devotional service in Krsna

consciousness, who have not tended a pure devotee, and especially

those who are conscious of Krsna only as a historical personality or

who are envious of the greatness of Krsna should not be told this most

confidential part of knowledge. It is, however, sometimes found that

even demoniac persons who are envious of Krsna, worshiping Krsna in a

different way, take to the profession of explaining Bhagavad-gita in a

different way to make business, but anyone who desires actually to

understand Krsna must avoid such commentaries on Bhagavad-gita.

Actually the purpose of Bhagavad-gita is not understandable to those

who are sensuous. Even if one is not sensuous but is strictly

following the disciplines enjoined in the Vedic scripture, if he is

not a devotee he also cannot understand Krsna. And even when one poses

himself as a devotee of Krsna but is not engaged in Krsna conscious

activities, he also cannot understand Krsna. There are many persons

who envy Krsna because He has explained in Bhagavad-gita that He is

the Supreme and that nothing is above Him or equal to Him. There are

many persons who are envious of Krsna. Such persons should not be told

of Bhagavad-gita, for they cannot understand. There is no possibility

of faithless persons' understanding Bhagavad-gita and Krsna. Without

understanding Krsna from the authority of a pure devotee, one should

not try to comment upon Bhagavad-gita.

 

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