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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 11.3

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Ullāsa 11 · Verse 3

कलौ दुर्वृत्तयो लोकाः कामक्रोधान्धचेतसः । नास्तिकाः संशयात्मानः सदेन्द्रियसुखैषिणः ॥ ३ ॥

kalau durvṛttayō lōkāḥ kāmakrōdhāndhacētasaḥ | nāstikāḥ saṁśayātmānaḥ sadēndriyasukhaiṣiṇaḥ || 3 ||

Translation

But in the Kali age people behave badly, their minds blinded by desire and anger; they deny, they doubt, they always seek the pleasures of the senses.

Word by word

kalau
in the Kali age
durvṛttayaḥ
(durvṛttayaḥ) behaving badly
lōkāḥ
(lokāḥ) people
kāma
by desire
krōdha
and anger
andha
blinded
cētasaḥ
(cetasaḥ) whose minds
nāstikāḥ
(nāstikāḥ) deniers
saṁśayātmānaḥ
(saṁśayātmānaḥ) doubters
sadā
always
indriya
of the senses
sukha
the pleasures
ēṣiṇaḥ
(eṣiṇaḥ) seeking

Meaning

The ṭīkā glosses each word: nāstika, one who holds that there is no other world; saṁśayātman, one whose mind cannot decide whether there is or not.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

See the commentary on verse 2.