न तस्य दुरितं किञ्चिद्ब्रह्मनिष्ठस्य देहिनः । सत्यपूतस्य शुद्धस्य सर्वप्राणिहितस्य च । को वोपद्रवमन्विच्छेदात्मापघातकं विना ॥ २८ ॥
na tasya duritaṁ kiñcidbrahmaniṣṭhasya dēhinaḥ | satyapūtasya śuddhasya sarvaprāṇihitasya ca | kō vōpadravamanvicchēdātmāpaghātakaṁ vinā || 28 ||
Translation
No evil touches the embodied one who is devoted to Brahman, purified by truth, pure, intent on the good of all beings. Who but one bent on harming himself would seek to trouble him?
Word by word
- na
- no
- tasya
- for him
- duritaṁ
- evil
- kiñcidbrahmaniṣṭhasya
- any, for the one devoted to Brahman
- dēhinaḥ
- embodied
- satyapūtasya
- purified by truth
- śuddhasya
- pure in mind
- sarvaprāṇihitasya
- doing good to all beings
- ca
- and
- kō
- who
- vōpadravamanvicchēdātmāpaghātakaṁ
- would seek to trouble him, except one who harms himself
- vinā
- but
Meaning
Śuddha is glossed as "of spotless mind". The verse leads into the next two, on those who wrong such a person.