Shloka 6

Devanagari script

कर्षयन्त: शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतस:7 । मां चैवान्त:शरीरस्थं तान्‌ विद्धयासुरनिश्चयान्‌,जो शरीररूपसे स्थित भूतसमुदायको और अन्तःकरणमें स्थित मुझ परमात्माको भी कृश करनेवाले हैं,* उन अज्ञानियोंको तू आसुरस्वभाववाले जान

Transliteration

karṣayantaḥ śarīrasthaṁ bhūtagrāmam acetasaḥ | māṁ caivāntaḥśarīrasthaṁ tān viddhy āsuranīścayān ||

Translation

無知なる者どもは、身に宿る生命の群れを苦しめ、さらに内なる身に坐すわれ—内住の自己—をも損なう。彼らを、アスラの決意を抱く者と知れ。

Word by Word

कर्षयन्तःtormenting / emaciating

शरीरस्थम्situated in the body

भूतग्रामम्the aggregate of beings/elements

अचेतसःunintelligent / senseless

माम्me

चand

एवindeed / also

अन्तःशरीरस्थम्situated within the body (inner indweller)

तान्them

विद्धिknow (you) / understand

आसुरनिश्चयान्of demoniac resolve / demoniac-minded

Speaker

अजुन उवाच

Characters & Entities

mām (the indwelling Supreme Self/Īśvara)

śarīra (the body)

bhūtagrāma (the host of embodied beings/elements)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

War Context

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Austerities that injure the body and its living constituents are condemned as ignorant and ‘āsuric’ because they violate ethical restraint and fail to honor the divine Self present within all embodied life.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the teaching on faith and austerity, the speaker criticizes misguided ascetic practices: people who, lacking discernment, punish the body and thereby also ‘afflict’ the indwelling Lord are identified as having a demonic, unrighteous resolve.