Bhagavad Gita Chapter 9 Verse 12 — Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga
Sanskrit
मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतसः | राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः ||९-१२||
Transliteration
moghāśā moghakarmāṇo moghajñānā vicetasaḥ . rākṣasīmāsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ ||9-12||
Hindi Meaning
।।9.12।। वृथा आशा, वृथा कर्म और वृथा ज्ञान वाले अविचारीजन राक्षसों के और असुरों के मोहित करने वाले स्वभाव को धारण किये रहते हैं।।
English Meaning
Those who are thus bewildered are attracted by demonic and atheistic views. In that deluded condition, their hopes for liberation, their fruitive activities, and their culture of knowledge are all defeated.
Commentary
There are many devotees who assume themselves to be in Kṛṣṇa consciousness and devotional service but at heart do not accept the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa, as the Absolute Truth. For them, the fruit of devotional service – going back to Godhead – will never be tasted. Similarly, those who are engaged in fruitive pious activities and who are ultimately hoping to be liberated from this material entanglement will never be successful either, because they deride the Supreme Personality of Godhead, Kṛṣṇa. In other words, persons who mock Kṛṣṇa are to be understood to be demonic or atheistic. As described in the Seventh Chapter of Bhagavad-gītā , such demonic miscreants never surrender to Kṛṣṇa. Therefore their mental speculations to arrive at the Absolute Truth bring them to the false conclusion that the ordinary living entity and Kṛṣṇa are one and the same. With such a false conviction, they think that the body of any human being is now simply covered by material nature and that as soon as one is liberated from this material body there is no difference between God and himself. This attempt to become one with Kṛṣṇa will be baffled because of delusion. Such atheistic and demoniac cultivation of spiritual knowledge is always futile. That is the indication of this verse. For such persons, cultivation of the knowledge in the Vedic literature, like the Vedānta-sūtra and the Upaniṣads, is always baffled. It is a great offense, therefore, to consider Kṛṣṇa, the Supreme Personality of Godhead, to be an ordinary man. Those who do so are certainly deluded because they cannot understand the eternal form of Kṛṣṇa. The Bṛhad-viṣṇu-smṛti clearly states: yo vetti bhautikaṁ dehaṁ kṛṣṇasya paramātmanaḥ sa sarvasmād bahiṣ-kāryaḥ śrauta-smārta-vidhānataḥ mukhaṁ tasyāvalokyāpi sa-celaṁ snānam ācaret “One who considers the body of Kṛṣṇa to be material should be driven out from all rituals and activities of the śruti and the smṛti. And if one by chance sees his face, one should at once take bath in the Ganges to rid himself of infection.” People jeer at Kṛṣṇa because they are envious of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Their destiny is certainly to take birth after birth in the species of atheistic and demoniac life. Perpetually, their real knowledge will remain under delusion, and gradually they will regress to the darkest region of creation.
Hinglish Commentary
Bahut se bhakt aise hote hain jo khud ko Kṛṣṇa ki bhakti aur unki chetna mein samajhte hain, lekin unke dil mein Kṛṣṇa ko Paramatma ya Absolute Truth nahi maante. Aise logon ko bhakti ka phal, yaani Godhead tak jaana, kabhi nahi milta. Waise hi, jo log sirf shubh karmon mein lage hain aur is sansar se mukti ki aas rakhte hain, unka bhi safar safal nahi hota, kyunki wo Kṛṣṇa ka mazak udate hain. Matlab, jo log Kṛṣṇa ka mazak udate hain, unhe demon ya atheistic samjha jaana chahiye. Bhagavad-gītā ke Seventh Chapter mein bataya gaya hai ki aise log kabhi Kṛṣṇa ke samne nahi jhukte. Isliye, jab wo Absolute Truth tak pahunchne ki koshish karte hain, to unka dimaag unhe galat sochne par majboor kar deta hai ki Kṛṣṇa aur koi bhi insaan ek hi hain. Is galat soch ke saath, wo samajhte hain ki har insaan ka sharir sirf material nature se dhaka hua hai, aur jab wo is sharir se mukt hote hain, to unhe aur Kṛṣṇa mein koi farq nahi milta. Kṛṣṇa ke saath ek hone ki koshish hamesha uljhan mein rahegi kyunki ye unki bhool hai. Aise atheistic aur demoniac spiritual knowledge ka vikas kabhi bhi safal nahi hota. Ye is shlok ka sandesh hai. Aise logon ke liye Vedic granthon jaise Vedānta-sūtra aur Upaniṣads ka gyaan hamesha bekaar hota hai. Kṛṣṇa ko ek aam aadmi samajhna ek badi apraad hai. Aise log sach mein bhool bhulaiya mein hain kyunki wo Kṛṣṇa ke eternal roop ko nahi samajhte. Bṛhad-viṣṇu-smṛti kehti hai: jo Kṛṣṇa ke sharir ko material samajhta hai, use sabhi rituals aur śruti aur smṛti ke kaamon se bahar nikaal dena chahiye. Agar koi uska chehra dekh le, to use turant Ganga mein snan karna chahiye taaki wo infection se chutkaara pa sake. Log Kṛṣṇa ka mazak isliye udate hain kyunki wo Supreme Personality of Godhead se jalan rakhte hain. Unka bhavishya zaroor atheistic aur demoniac jeevan mein janm lena hai. Unka asli gyaan hamesha bhool bhulaiya mein rahega, aur dheere dheere wo srishti ke andheron mein chale jayenge.