TEXT 31

STIH 31

Devanagari

क्षिप्रं भवति धर्मात्मा शश्वच्छान्तिं निगच्छति ।
कौन्तेय प्रतिजानीहि न मे भक्त: प्रणश्यति ॥ ३१ ॥

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kṣipraṁ bhavati dharmātmā
śaśvac-chāntiṁ nigacchati
kaunteya pratijānīhi
na me bhaktaḥ praṇaśyati

Synonyms

kṣipram — very soon; bhavati — becomes; dharma-ātmā — righteous; śaśvat-śāntim — lasting peace; nigacchati — attains; kaunteya — O son of Kuntī; pratijānīhi — declare; na — never; me — My; bhaktaḥ — devotee; praṇaśyati — perishes.

kṣipram – ubrzo; bhavati – postaje; dharma-ātmā – ispravan; śaśvat-śāntim – trajan mir; nigacchati – stječe; kaunteya – o Kuntīn sine; pratijānīhi – objavi; na – nikada; me – Moj; bhaktaḥ – bhakta; praṇaśyati – propada.

Translation

He quickly becomes righteous and attains lasting peace. O son of Kuntī, declare it boldly that My devotee never perishes.

On ubrzo postaje ispravan i stječe trajan mir. O Kuntīn sine, otvoreno reci svima da Moj bhakta nikada ne propada.

Purport

This should not be misunderstood. In the Seventh Chapter the Lord says that one who is engaged in mischievous activities cannot become a devotee of the Lord. One who is not a devotee of the Lord has no good qualifications whatsoever. The question remains, then, How can a person engaged in abominable activities – either by accident or by intention – be a pure devotee? This question may justly be raised. The miscreants, as stated in the Seventh Chapter, who never come to the devotional service of the Lord, have no good qualifications, as is stated in the Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Generally, a devotee who is engaged in the nine kinds of devotional activities is engaged in the process of cleansing all material contamination from the heart. He puts the Supreme Personality of Godhead within his heart, and all sinful contaminations are naturally washed away. Continuous thinking of the Supreme Lord makes him pure by nature. According to the Vedas, there is a certain regulation that if one falls down from his exalted position he has to undergo certain ritualistic processes to purify himself. But here there is no such condition, because the purifying process is already there in the heart of the devotee, due to his remembering the Supreme Personality of Godhead constantly. Therefore, the chanting of Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare/ Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare should be continued without stoppage. This will protect a devotee from all accidental falldowns. He will thus remain perpetually free from all material contaminations.

SMISAO: Ovaj stih ne bismo trebali pogrešno shvatiti. U sedmom poglavlju Gospodin kaže da onaj tko čini loša djela ne može postati Gospodinov bhakta. Onaj tko nije Gospodinov bhakta nema dobrih osobina. Stoga se može postaviti pitanje: „Kako onaj tko čini odvratna djela – bilo slučajno bilo namjerno – može biti čisti bhakta?" To se pitanje može s pravom postaviti. U sedmom poglavlju rečeno je da nitkovi, koji nikada ne služe Gospodina, nemaju dobrih odlika. To je potvrđeno u Śrīmad-Bhāgavatamu. Bhakta koji slijedi devet procesa predanog služenja čisti svoje srce od svih materijalnih nečistoća. On nosi Svevišnju Božansku Osobu u svom srcu i sve grešne nečistoće prirodno nestaju. Zahvaljujući neprestanom razmišljanju o Svevišnjem Gospodinu prirodno postaje čist. Prema Vedama, ako osoba padne s visoka položaja mora se podvrći propisanim obrednim postupcima kako bi se pročistila. Ali ovdje se ne postavlja takav uvjet. Proces je čišćenja već prisutan u srcu bhakte, jer se bhakta neprestano sjeća Svevišnje Božanske Osobe. Zato treba neprestano pjevati Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. To će ga zaštititi od svih slučajnih padova. Tako će uvijek biti oslobođen sve materijalne prljavštine.