🪷 Bhagavad-Gītā · 1.36

Chapter 1 · अर्जुनविषादयोग · Arjuna-Viṣāda-Yoga · "The Yoga of Arjuna's Despondency" · Verse 36 of 47

निहत्य धार्तराष्ट्रान्नः का प्रीतिः स्याज्जनार्दन।

पापमेवाश्रयेदस्मान्हत्वैतानाततायिनः।।1.36।।
Bhagavad-Gītā 1.36 · Devanāgarī root text

🪷 English Translations

5 received English translations are available for this śloka. Each voice is labelled; no single rendering is presented as the Sanskrit itself.

Shri Purohit Swami · Poetic English · 1935 edition attribution in the received data
1.36 My Lord! What happiness can come from the death of these sons of Dhritarashtra? We shall sin if we kill these desperate men.
Swami Sivananda · Direct prose · Divine Life Society
1.36. By killing these sons of Dhritarashtra, what pleasure can be ours, O Janardana? Only sin will accrue to us from killing these felons.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Word-key glosses · Advaita Ashrama · Śaṅkara-school
1.36 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Śrī-Vaiṣṇava perspective · Rāmānuja school
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Academic precision · modern scholarly
1.36. Nothing but sin would slay these desperadoes and take hold of us. Therefore we should not slay Dhrtarastra's sons, our own relatives.

🪷 Hindi Translation · हिन्दी अनुवाद

Received Hindi rendering attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi rendering · source-data attribution
।।1.36।। हे जनार्दन! इन धृतराष्ट्र-सम्बन्धियों को मारकर हमलोगों को क्या प्रसन्नता होगी? इन आततायियों को मारने से तो हमें पाप ही लगेगा।

🪷 English Commentaries · The Ācārya Voices

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Swami Sivananda · Verse-by-verse word-keys with Sanskrit anchors
1.36 निहत्य having slain? धार्तराष्ट्रान् sons of Dhritarashtra? नः to us? का what? प्रीतिः pleasure? स्यात् may be? जनार्दन O Janardana? पापम् sin? एव only? आश्रयेत् would take hold? अस्मान् to us? हत्वा having killed? एतान् these? आततायिनः felons.Commentary Janardana means one who is worshipped by all for prosperity and salvation -- Krishna.He who sets fire to the house of another? who gives poision? who runs with sword to kill? who has plundered wealth and lands? and who has taken hold of the wife of somody else is an atatayi. Duryodhana had done all these evil actions.
Swami Gambīrānanda · Advaita-school commentary (Śaṅkara tradition)
1.36 Sri Sankaracharya did not comment on this sloka. The commentary starts from 2.10.
Swami Ādidevānanda · Rāmānuja Śrī-Vaiṣṇava commentary
1.26 - 1.47 Arjuna said - Sanjaya said Sanjaya continued: The high-minded Arjuna, extremely kind, deeply friendly, and supremely righteous, having brothers like himself, though repeatedly deceived by the treacherous attempts of your people like burning in the lac-house etc., and therefore fit to be killed by him with the help of the Supreme Person, nevertheless said, 'I will not fight.' He felt weak, overcome as he was by his love and extreme compassion for his relatives. He was also filled with fear, not knowing what was righteous and what unrighteous. His mind was tortured by grief, because of the thought of future separation from his relations. So he threw away his bow and arrow and sat on the chariot as if to fast to death.
Dr. S. Sankaranarayan · Modern academic scholarship
1.35 1.44 Nihatya etc. upto anususruma. Sin alone is the agent in the act of slaying these desperadoes. Therefore here the idea is this : These ememies of ours have been slain, i.e., have been take possession of, by sin. Sin would come to us also after slaying them. Sin in this context is the disregard, on account of greed etc., to the injurious conseences like the ruination of the family and the like. That is why Arjuna makes a specific mention of the [ruin of the] family etc., and of its duties in the passage 'How by slaying my own kinsmen etc'. The act of slaying, undertaken with an individualizing idea about its result, and with a particularizing idea about the person to be slain, is a great sin. To say this very thing precisely and to indicate the intensity of his own agony, Arjuna says only to himself [see next sloka]:
Swami Chinmayānanda · Chinmaya Mission · modern Vedantic teaching
।।1.36।। अर्जुन के इतना कुछ कहने पर भी भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण मूर्तिवत् मौन ही रहते हैं। इसलिये वह पहले की भाषा छोड़कर मृदुभाव से किसी मन्द बुद्धि मित्र को कोई बात समझाने की शैली में भावुक तर्क देने लगता है। भगवान् के निरन्तर मौन धारण किये रहने से अर्जुन की यह परिवर्तित नीति अत्यन्त हास्यास्पद प्रतीत होती है।इस श्लोक में प्रथम वह कहता है कि दुर्योधनादि को मारने से किसी प्रकार का कल्याण होने वाला नहीं है। इस पर भी काष्ठवत् मौन खड़े श्रीकृष्ण को देखकर उसको इस मौन भाव का कारण समझ में नहीं आता। शीघ्र ही उसे स्मरण हो आता है कि कौरव परिवार आततायी है और धर्मशास्त्र के नियमानुसार आततायी को तत्काल मार डालना चाहिये चाहे वह शिक्षक वृद्ध पुरुष या वेदज्ञ ब्राह्मण ही क्यों न हो। आततायी को मारने में किसी प्रकार का पाप नहीं है। अन्यायपूर्वक किसी पर आक्रमण करने वाला पुरुष आततायी कहलाता है।अपने शुद्ध दिव्य स्वरूप के विपरीत हम जो गलत काम करते हैं वे पाप कहलाते हैं। शरीर मन और बुद्धि को ही अपना स्वरूप समझकर कोई कर्म करना श्रेष्ठ मनुष्य का लक्षण नहीं है। अहंकारपूर्वक स्वार्थ के लिये किये गये कर्म हमारे और शुद्ध चैतन्य स्वरूप आत्मा के बीच वासना की सुदृढ़ दीवार खड़ी कर देते हैं। इन्हें ही पाप कहा जाता है।शत्रुओं की हत्या करने में अर्जुन का अविवेकपूर्ण विरोध शास्त्र को न समझने का परिणाम है और फिर अपनी समझ के अनुसार कर्म करना अपनी संस्कृति को ही नष्ट करना है।इसलिए भगवान् श्रीकृष्ण अर्जुन के तर्कों की न स्तुति करते हैं और न ही आलोचना। वे जानते हैं कि अर्जुन को अपने मन की बात कह लेने देनी चाहिए। किसी मानसिक रोगी के लिए यह उत्तम निदान है। इस प्रकार उसका चित्त शांत हो जाता है।

🪷 Hindi Vyākhyā · हिन्दी व्याख्या

Received Hindi vyākhyā attributed in the source data to Swami Rāmsukhdās ji.

🪷 Swami Rāmsukhdās · Hindi vyākhyā · source-data attribution
।।1.36।। व्याख्या--'निहत्य धार्तराष्ट्रान्नः ৷৷. हत्वैतानाततायिनः'-- धृतराष्ट्रके पुत्र और उनके सहयोगी दूसरे जितने भी सैनिक हैं, उनको मारकर विजय प्राप्त करनेसे हमें क्या प्रसन्नता होगी? अगर हम क्रोध अथवा लोभके वेगमें आकर इनको मार भी दें, तो उनका वेग शान्त होनेपर हमें रोना ही पड़ेगा अर्थात् क्रोध और लोभमें आकर हम क्या अनर्थ कर बैठे--ऐसा पश्चत्ताप ही करना पड़ेगा। कुटुम्बियोंकी याद आनेपर उनका अभाव बार-बार खटकेगा। चित्तमें उनकी मृत्युका शोक सताता रहेगा। ऐसी स्थितिमें हमें कभी प्रसन्नता हो सकती है क्या ?तात्पर्य है कि इनको मारनेसे हम इस लोकमें जबतक जीते रहेंगे, तबतक हमारे चित्तमें कभी प्रसन्नता नहीं होगी और इनको मारनेसे हमें जो पाप लगेगा, वह परलोकमें हमें भयंकर दुःख देनेवाला होगा।

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