Shloka 20

कल्मषापहर-कीर्तनम् / Kīrtana for the Removal of Impurity

Devanagari script

गुरु चाभिगतं प्रेम्णा गुरुवन्न बुभूषते । अभिमानप्रवृत्तेन लोभेन समवस्थिता:

Transliteration

guruṁ cābhigataṁ premṇā guruvan na bubhūṣate | abhimāna-pravṛttena lobhena samavasthitāḥ |

Translation

Khi thầy đến, họ chẳng kính thờ bằng lòng thương kính—không muốn tôn thầy như bậc đạo sư. Bị kiêu mạn và tham lam chi phối, họ xúc phạm người đáng tôn kính và khinh miệt bậc trưởng thượng. Ôi Nữ Thần, hết thảy kẻ làm như vậy đều là kẻ hướng về địa ngục.

Word by Word

• [{'term': 'guru', 'definition': 'teacher

• one worthy of reverence'}, {'term': 'abhigata', 'definition': 'approached

• met (having come into the presence of)'}, {'term': 'premṇā', 'definition': 'with love

• out of affectionate regard'}, {'term': 'guruvat', 'definition': 'as (one would) a guru

• with the respect due to a teacher'}, {'term': 'bubhūṣate (√bhūṣ)', 'definition': 'honors

• treats with respect'}, {'term': 'abhimāna', 'definition': 'pride

• arrogance'}, {'term': 'pravṛtta', 'definition': 'arisen from

• set in motion by'}, {'term': 'lobha', 'definition': 'greed

• covetousness'}, {'term': 'samavasthitāḥ', 'definition': 'standing firm in

• settled in (a condition)'}, {'term': 'devī', 'definition': 'O Goddess (vocative address)'}, {'term': 'naraka-gāmī', 'definition': 'hell-bound

Speaker

श्रीमहेश्वर उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Śrī-Maheśvara
• Devī
• guru

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

One must honor the guru and other venerable elders with genuine regard; pride-driven greed leads to disrespect, which is presented as a grave adharma bringing severe karmic downfall (naraka).

What is happening in the narrative?

Maheśvara addresses Devī, describing a moral failing: people approach a teacher yet refuse to treat him with due reverence, and, under pride and greed, insult respectable persons and elders; he declares such conduct leads to hell.