Chapter 9, Slok 12
🗣 Speaker: zrIbhagavAnBG 9.12
Original Verse
moghAzA moghakarmANo moghajJAnA vicetasaH | rAkSasImAsurIM caiva prakRtiM mohinIM zritAH ||9-12||
Transliteration
moghāśā moghakarmāṇo moghajñānā vicetasaḥ . rākṣasīmāsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ ||9-12||
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Swami Adidevananda
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Translation
9.12 Senseless men entertain a nature which is deluding and akin to that of Raksasas (fiends) and Asuras (monsters). Their hopes are vain, acts are vain and knowledge is vain.