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Verse 9·12

Empty hopes and actions of the deluded

Verse

मोघाशा मोघकर्माणो मोघज्ञाना विचेतसः ।राक्षसीमासुरीं चैव प्रकृतिं मोहिनीं श्रिताः ॥

moghāśā moghakarmāṇo moghajñānā vicetasaḥrākṣasīmāsurīṃ caiva prakṛtiṃ mohinīṃ śritāḥ

All their hope, action, knowledge are vain things (when judged by the Divine eternal standard); they dwell in the Rakshasic and Asuric nature which deludes the will and the intelligence.

Gītā 9·12

They become a prey to the nature of the Rakshasa in man who sacrifices everything to a violent and inordinate satisfaction of his separate vital ego and makes that the dark godhead of his will and thought and action and enjoyment. Or they are hurried onward in a fruitless cycle by the arrogant self-will, self-sufficient thought, self-regarding act, self-satisfied and yet ever unsatisfied intellectualised appetite of enjoyment of the Asuric nature.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · p. 326

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