Chapter 16 · Verse 10 · Daivasura Sampad Vibhaga Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 16.10
Sanskrit
काममाश्रित्य दुष्पूरं दम्भमानमदान्विताः।मोहाद्गृहीत्वासद्ग्राहान्प्रवर्तन्तेऽशुचिव्रताः।।16.10।।
Transliteration
kāmam āśhritya duṣhpūraṁ dambha-māna-madānvitāḥ mohād gṛihītvāsad-grāhān pravartante ’śhuchi-vratāḥ
Word by Word
This verse reveals the anatomy of spiritual descent—when the individual surrenders to insatiable desire, they become enslaved by a trinity of illusions: hypocrisy masquerading as virtue, arrogance disguising emptiness, and delusion clinging to the impermanent as real. The Vedantic insight is that such beings lock themselves in a prison of their own making, their resolve corrupted at its root.
For us today, this is the invitation to examine where we perform virtue rather than embody it, where we chase endless upgrades and validations, where we mistake the fleeting for the eternal—and to recognize that liberation begins with honest self-seeing.
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Bhagavad Gita 16.10 — BG 16.10
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