Shloka 50

तृष्णाक्षय-उपदेशः

Instruction on the Cessation of Craving

Devanagari script

ज्ञानं प्लावयते सर्व यो ज्ञान हानुवर्तते । ज्ञानादपेत्य या वृत्ति: सा विनाशयति प्रजा:,जो ज्ञानका अनुसरण करता है, ज्ञान उसके समस्त संसारबन्धनका नाश कर देता है। बिना ज्ञानकी जो प्रवृत्ति होती है, वह प्रजाको जन्म और मरणके चक्‍्करमें डालकर उसका विनाश कर देती है

Transliteration

jñānaṁ plāvayate sarvaṁ yo jñānam anuvartate | jñānād apetyā yā vṛttiḥ sā vināśayati prajāḥ ||

Translation

Knowledge carries one safely across all entanglements of worldly bondage when a person truly follows it. But any course of action that departs from knowledge drives beings into ruin, casting them again into the cycle of birth and death.

Word by Word

ज्ञानम्knowledge

प्लावयतेcauses to cross over / ferries across

सर्वम्all (everything)

यःwho

ज्ञानम्knowledge

अनुवर्ततेfollows / practices

ज्ञानात्from knowledge

अपेत्यhaving departed (from) / having left

याwhich

वृत्तिःconduct / activity / tendency

साthat

विनाशयतिdestroys / brings to ruin

प्रजाःcreatures / people

Speaker

कपिल उवाच

Characters & Entities

Kapila

prajāḥ (beings/creatures)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Geographic Context

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