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Bhagavad Gita 11.29

यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गाविशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः।तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोकास्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः॥

yathā pradīptaṃ jvalanaṃ pataṅgāviśanti nāśāya samṛddhavegāḥ |tathaiva nāśāya viśanti lokāstavāpi vaktrāṇi samṛddhavegāḥ ||

As moths hurriedly rush into a blazing fire, leading to their own destruction, so too these creatures hurry into Your mouths, leading to their own destruction.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

As moths impetuously fly towards the flame, only to be killed, so these men rush into Your mouths to court their own destruction.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 11.29 · SatsangVidya