Chapter 17, Slok 5
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 17.5
Original Verse
azAstravihitaM ghoraM tapyante ye tapo janAH | dambhAhaMkArasaMyuktAH kAmarAgabalAnvitAH ||17-5||
Transliteration
aśāstravihitaṃ ghoraṃ tapyante ye tapo janāḥ . dambhāhaṃkārasaṃyuktāḥ kāmarāgabalānvitāḥ ||17-5||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
17.5 Those men who practise terrible austerity not enjoined by the Sastras, given to ostentation and conceit, and prompted by the force of sensual desires and passion;