Bhagavad Gita 1.43
Chapter 1, verse 43
Meaning
“Through these wrongs of the people who destroy families, wrongs that throw the social order into confusion, the long-standing ways of the community and of the family are wiped out.”
The Sanskrit
दोषैरेतैः कुलघ्नानां वर्णसङ्करकारकैः ।
उत्साद्यन्ते जातिधर्माः कुलधर्माश्च शाश्वताः ॥ ४३ ॥
doṣair etaiḥ kulaghnānāṃ varṇasaṃkarakārakaiḥ
utsādyante jātidharmāḥ kuladharmāś ca śāśvatāḥ
Say it
do-shair ay-taih koo-luh-ghnaa-naam vur-nuh-sung-kuh-ruh-kaa-ruh-kaih
oot-saa-dyun-tay jaa-ti-dhur-maah koo-luh-dhur-maash chuh shaa-shvuh-taah
Word by word
- doṣaiḥ etaiḥ
- by these wrongs
- kula-ghnānām
- of the family's destroyers
- varṇa-saṃkara-kārakaiḥ
- which cause the mixing of social orders
- utsādyante
- are wiped out
- jāti-dharmāḥ
- the duties and customs of the community
- kula-dharmāḥ ca
- and the family's duties and customs
- śāśvatāḥ
- long-lasting, age-old
Read it in context: verses 1.41–44One fear leads to the nextWith the story so far, commentary, and today's lesson: When each worry borrows strength from the last
Another translation and audio recitation: verse 1.43 on holy-bhagavad-gita.org.
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