TEXT 31

VERZ 31

Devanagari

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

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Besedilo

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 – zelo kmalu; bhavati – postane; dharma-ātmā – kreposten; śaśvat-śāntim – trajni mir; nigacchati – doseže; kaunteya – o Kuntījin sin; pratijānīhi – razglási; na – nikoli; me – Moj; bhaktaḥ – bhakta; praṇaśyati – propade.

Translation

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

Kmalu postane kreposten in doseže trajni mir. O Kuntījin sin, smelo razglasi, da Moj bhakta nikoli ne propade.

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.

Ta verz moramo pravilno razumeti. V sedmem poglavju Gospod pravi, da grešen človek ne more postati Njegov bhakta. Kdor ni Gospodov bhakta, nima nobene dobre lastnosti. Zdaj se upravičeno postavlja naslednje vprašanje: Kako je človek, ki bodisi slučajno bodisi namenoma deluje na zaničevanja vreden način, lahko Gospodov čisti bhakta? V sedmem poglavju je rečeno, da brezbožneži, ki nikoli ne služijo Gospodu, nimajo nobene dobre lastnosti. Tako pravi tudi Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam. Bhakta, ki opravlja devetero dejavnosti vdanega služenja, postopoma odstrani iz svojega srca vse materialne nečistoče. V srce postavi Vsevišnjo Božansko Osebnost, zato vse nečistoče, ki so se nabrale v njem zaradi grešnega delovanja, same od sebe izginejo. Ker bhakta nenehno razmišlja o Vsevišnjem Gospodu, postane popolnoma čist. Za človeka, ki pade z vzvišenega položaja, Vede predpisujejo določene očiščevalne obrede. Bhakti takih obredov ni treba opravljati, saj čisti svoje srce že s tem, ko se nenehno spominja Vsevišnje Božanske Osebnosti. Bhakta bi moral torej brez prestanka peti Hare Kṛṣṇa, Hare Kṛṣṇa, Kṛṣṇa Kṛṣṇa, Hare Hare / Hare Rāma, Hare Rāma, Rāma Rāma, Hare Hare. To ga bo obvarovalo pred slučajnim padcem in vsemi materialnimi nečistočami.