4.10 Purified by the fire of knowledge Krishna speaks
वीतरागभयक्रोधा मन्मया मामुपाश्रिताः
बहवो ज्ञानतपसा पूता मद्भावमागताः
vīta-rāga-bhaya-krodhā man-mayā mām upāśhritāḥ
bahavo jñāna-tapasā pūtā mad-bhāvam āgatāḥ
Free of attachment, fear and anger, filled with me and taking refuge in me, many have been purified by the fire of knowledge and have reached my own state.
Explanation
Purified by the fire of knowledge.
Free of attachment, fear and anger, filled with him — and many have reached his state.
The tense matters. This is not offered as a possibility but as something already done, repeatedly, by people unnamed. The image of fire will run through the rest of the chapter.
Word by word
- vīta
- freed from
- rāga
- attachment
- bhaya
- fear
- krodhāḥ
- and anger
- mat-mayā
- completely absorbed in me
- mām
- in me
- upāśhritāḥ
- taking refuge (of)
- bahavaḥ
- many (persons)
- jñāna
- of knowledge
- tapasā
- by the fire of knowledge
- pūtāḥ
- purified
- mat-bhāvam
- my divine love
- āgatāḥ
- attained
Long-press or right-click the image to copy it. Nothing is uploaded — it is drawn here, on your device.