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BG 7.21

Bhagavad Gītā · Jñāna Vijñāna YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)

यो यो यां यां तनुं भक्तः श्रद्धयार्चितुमिच्छति | तस्य तस्याचलां श्रद्धां तामेव विदधाम्यहम् ||७-२१||

yo yo yāṃ yāṃ tanuṃ bhaktaḥ śraddhayārcitumicchati . tasya tasyācalāṃ śraddhāṃ tāmeva vidadhāmyaham ||7-21||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
yoGyoGyāṃGyāṃGtaLnuṃGbhaGktaḥGśraGddhaLGrciLtuLmiGcchaLtiL
taGsyaLtaGsyāGcaLlāṃGśraGddhāṃGGmeGvaLviLdaLdhāGmyaLhamL
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
यस्यस्याम्याम्तन्उम्भक्तस्श्रद्धयाअर्चितुम्इच्छतितस्यतस्याचलाम्श्रद्धाम्ताम्एवविदधामिअहम्
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
17 words analyzed
  • यस्yasnominal · nominative plural masculine
  • यस्yasnominal · nominative plural masculine
  • याम्yāmयाnominal · genitive plural neuter
  • याम्yāmयाnominal · genitive plural neuter
  • तन्tanतन्nominal · vocative singular masculine
  • उम्umnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • भक्तस्bhaktasभज्nominal · nominative singular masculine
  • श्रद्धयाśraddhayāश्रद्धाnominal · instrumental singular feminine
  • अर्चितुम्arcitumअर्च्indeclinable
  • इच्छतिicchatiइष्verb · present third singular active (√iṣ)
  • तस्यtasyaतद्nominal · genitive singular neuter
  • तस्याचलाम्tasyācalāmunknown
  • श्रद्धाम्śraddhāmश्रद्धाnominal · accusative singular feminine
  • ताम्tāmताnominal · accusative singular feminine
  • एवevaएवnominal · vocative singular neuter
  • विदधामिvidadhāmiविधाverb · present first singular active (√vidhā)
  • अहम्ahamअहnominal · nominative singular neuter
Recitationtool-derived · pending

Facts come from Vidyut (deterministic), never the model. Automated segmentation isn’t hand-verified — gaps are shown, not guessed.

Translations

Swami SivanandaRelay

7.21 Whatsoever form any devotee desires to worship with faith that (same) faith of his I make firm and unflinching.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

I am in everyone’s heart as the Supersoul. As soon as one desires to worship some demigod, I make his faith steady so that he can devote himself to that particular deity.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

7.21. Whatever may be the form [of the deity] a devotee-whosoever he may be-desires to worship with faith, I assume that form which is firm and is according to [his] faith.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

7.21 But whatever the form of worship, if the devotee have faith, then upon his faith in that worship do I set My own seal.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

7.21 See Comment under 7.23

Sri RamanujaRelay

7.21 These divinities too constitute My body as taught in the Sruti text like: 'He who, dwelling in the sun, whom the sun does not know, whose body is the sun' (Br. U., 3.7.9). Whichever devotee seeks to worship with faith whatever form of Mine, such as the Indra, although not knowing these divinities to be My forms, I consider his faith as being directed to My bodies or manifestations, and make his faith steadfast, i.e., make it free from obstacles.

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

7.21 Yam yam, whichever; tanum, form of a deity; yah, any covetous person- among these people with desires; who, being endowed sraddhaya, with faith; and being a bhaktah, devotee; icchati, wants; arcitum, to worship; tam eva, that very; acalam, firm, steady; sraddham, faith; tasya, of his, of that particular covetous person-that very faith with which he desires to worship whatever form of a deity, in which (worship) he was earlier engaged under the impulsion of his own nature-; [Ast. takes the portion 'svabhavatah yo yam devata-tanum sraddhaya arcitum icchati' with the next verse.-Tr.] vidadhami, I strengthen.

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

7.21 Whichever devotee seeks to worship with faith whatever form, I make that very faith steadfast.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

7.21 Whichever form (of a deity) any devotee wants to worship with faith, that very firm faith of his I strengthen.

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