TEXT 12

STIH 12

Devanagari

काङ्क्षन्तः कर्मणां सिद्धिं यजन्त इह देवता ।
क्षिप्रं हि मानुषे लोके सिद्धिर्भवति कर्मजा ॥ १२ ॥

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Tekst

kāṅkṣantaḥ karmaṇāṁ siddhiṁ
yajanta iha devatāḥ
kṣipraṁ hi mānuṣe loke
siddhir bhavati karma-jā

Synonyms

kāṅkṣantaḥ — desiring; karmaṇām — of fruitive activities; siddhim — perfection; yajante — they worship by sacrifices; iha — in the material world; devatāḥ — the demigods; kṣipram — very quickly; hi — certainly; mānuṣe — in human society; loke — within this world; siddhiḥ — success; bhavati — comes; karma-jā — from fruitive work.

kāṅkṣantaḥ – želeći; karmaṇām – plodonosnog djelovanja; siddhim – savršenstvo; yajante – obožavaju žrtvovanjima; iha – u ovom materijalnom svijetu; devatāḥ – polubogove; kṣipram – vrlo brzo; hi – zacijelo; mānuṣe – u ljudskom društvu; loke – u ovom svijetu; siddhiḥ – uspjeh; bhavati – dolazi; karma-jā – u plodonosnom radu.

Translation

Men in this world desire success in fruitive activities, and therefore they worship the demigods. Quickly, of course, men get results from fruitive work in this world.

Ljudi u ovome svijetu žele postići uspjeh u plodonosnim djelatnostima i zato obožavaju polubogove. Naravno, brzo dobivaju rezultate plodonosnog rada u ovome svijetu.

Purport

There is a great misconception about the gods or demigods of this material world, and men of less intelligence, although passing as great scholars, take these demigods to be various forms of the Supreme Lord. Actually, the demigods are not different forms of God, but they are God’s different parts and parcels. God is one, and the parts and parcels are many. The Vedas say, nityo nityānām: God is one. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ. The Supreme God is one – Kṛṣṇa – and the demigods are delegated with powers to manage this material world. These demigods are all living entities (nityānām) with different grades of material power. They cannot be equal to the Supreme God – Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa. Anyone who thinks that God and the demigods are on the same level is called an atheist, or pāṣaṇḍī. Even the great demigods like Brahmā and Śiva cannot be compared to the Supreme Lord. In fact, the Lord is worshiped by demigods such as Brahmā and Śiva (śiva-viriñci-nutam). Yet curiously enough there are many human leaders who are worshiped by foolish men under the misunderstanding of anthropomorphism or zoomorphism. Iha devatāḥ denotes a powerful man or demigod of this material world. But Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, or Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, does not belong to this world. He is above, or transcendental to, material creation. Even Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya, the leader of the impersonalists, maintains that Nārāyaṇa, or Kṛṣṇa, is beyond this material creation. However, foolish people (hṛta-jñāna) worship the demigods because they want immediate results. They get the results, but do not know that results so obtained are temporary and are meant for less intelligent persons. The intelligent person is in Kṛṣṇa consciousness, and he has no need to worship the paltry demigods for some immediate, temporary benefit. The demigods of this material world, as well as their worshipers, will vanish with the annihilation of this material world. The boons of the demigods are material and temporary. Both the material worlds and their inhabitants, including the demigods and their worshipers, are bubbles in the cosmic ocean. In this world, however, human society is mad after temporary things such as the material opulence of possessing land, family and enjoyable paraphernalia. To achieve such temporary things, people worship the demigods or powerful men in human society. If a man gets some ministership in the government by worshiping a political leader, he considers that he has achieved a great boon. All of them are therefore kowtowing to the so-called leaders or “big guns” in order to achieve temporary boons, and they indeed achieve such things. Such foolish men are not interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness for the permanent solution to the hardships of material existence. They are all after sense enjoyment, and to get a little facility for sense enjoyment they are attracted to worshiping empowered living entities known as demigods. This verse indicates that people are rarely interested in Kṛṣṇa consciousness. They are mostly interested in material enjoyment, and therefore they worship some powerful living entity.

SMISAO: O bogovima, odnosno polubogovima materijalnog svijeta, vlada pogrešno mišljenje i ljudi koji nemaju veliku inteligenciju, premda se predstavljaju kao veliki učenjaci, smatraju polubogove raznim oblicima Svevišnjega Gospodina. Ustvari, polubogovi nisu različiti oblici Boga, već Njegovi različiti sastavni djelići. Bog je jedan, a djelići su mnogobrojni. Vede kažu – nityo nityānām: Bog je jedan. Īśvaraḥ paramaḥ kṛṣṇaḥ. Vrhovni je Bog jedan – Kṛṣṇa – a polubogovima je povjerena moć vladanja materijalnim svijetom. Svi su ti polubogovi živa bića (nityānām) koja posjeduju materijalnu moć u različitoj mjeri. Ne mogu biti jednaka Vrhovnom Bogu – Nārāyaṇi, Viṣṇuu ili Kṛṣṇi. Onaj tko misli da su Bog i polubogovi na istoj razini naziva se ateistom ili pāṣaṇḍījem. Čak se ni veliki polubogovi poput Brahme i Śive ne mogu usporediti sa Svevišnjim Gospodinom. Ustvari, polubogovi poput Brahme i Śive obožavaju Gospodina (śiva-viriñci-nutam). Začudo, budalasti ljudi zbog pogrešna shvaćanja antropomorfizma ili zoomorfizma obožavaju brojne ljudske vođe. Iha devatāḥ se odnosi na moćna čovjeka ili poluboga materijalnog svijeta. No Nārāyaṇa, Viṣṇu, ili Kṛṣṇa, Svevišnja Božanska Osoba, ne pripada ovom svijetu. On je transcendentalan prema materijalnom svijetu. Čak i Śrīpāda Śaṅkarācārya, vođa impersonalista, smatra da je Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, transcendentalan prema materijalnom svijetu. Međutim, budalasti ljudi (hṛta-jñāna) obožavaju polubogove jer žele trenutačne rezultate. Dobivaju rezultate, ali ne znaju da su tako stečeni rezultati privremeni i namijenjeni manje inteligentnim osobama. Inteligentna osoba svjesna je Kṛṣṇe. Takva osoba ne treba obožavati beznačajne polubogove radi trenutačne, privremene dobrobiti. Polubogovi materijalnog svijeta, kao i njihovi obožavatelji, nestat će s uništenjem materijalnog svijeta. Njihovi su blagoslovi materijalni i privremeni. Materijalni svjetovi i njihovi stanovnici, zajedno s polubogovima i njihovim obožavateljima, mjehurići su u oceanu svemira. U ovome svijetu ljudsko je društvo ludo za privremenim materijalnim obiljem kao što su zemlja, obitelj i stvari u kojima se može uživati. Da bi stekli takve privremene stvari, obožavaju polubogove ili moćne ljude u ljudskom društvu. Ako čovjek obožavajući kakva političkog vođu stekne položaj ministra u vladi, misli da je stekao veliku dobrobit. Zato se svi ulaguju takozvanim vođama ili „velikim zvjerkama" kako bi stekli privremene dobrobiti i doista ih stječu. Takvi budalasti ljudi ne pokazuju zanimanje za svjesnost Kṛṣṇe da bi se zauvijek oslobodili bijeda materijalnoga postojanja. Svi žele osjetilno uživanje i budući da žele pogodnosti za osjetilno uživanje, privlači ih obožavanje opunomoćenih živih bića poznatih kao polubogovi. Ovaj stih pokazuje da ljude rijetko zanima svjesnost Kṛṣṇe. Uglavnom ih zanima materijalno uživanje i zbog toga obožavaju kakvo moćno živo biće.