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BG 9.11

Bhagavad Gītā · Rāja Vidyā Rāja Guhya YogaAnuṣṭubh (śloka)

अवजानन्ति मां मूढा मानुषीं तनुमाश्रितम् | परं भावमजानन्तो मम भूतमहेश्वरम् ||९-११||

avajānanti māṃ mūḍhā mānuṣīṃ tanumāśritam . paraṃ bhāvamajānanto mama bhūtamaheśvaram ||9-11||

Linguistic facts

Meter · chandasVidyut

Anuṣṭubh (śloka) · 16+16 syllables

scansion (laghu/guru)
aLvaLGnaGntiLmāṃGGḍhāGGnuLṣīṃGtaLnuLGśriLtamL
paLraṃGbhāGvaLmaLGnaGntoGmaLmaLbhūGtaLmaLheGśvaLramL
Sandhi · pada-pāṭhaVidyut
अवजानन्तिमाम्मूढामानुषीम्तन्उम्आश्रितम्परम्भावम्अजाअनन्तस्ममभूतम्अहईश्वरम्
Word-by-word morphologyVidyut
15 words analyzed
  • अवजानन्तिavajānantiअवज्ञाnominal · vocative singular feminine
  • माम्māmमाnominal · genitive plural neuter
  • मूढाmūḍhāमुह्nominal · nominative singular feminine
  • मानुषीम्mānuṣīmमानुषीnominal · accusative singular feminine
  • तन्tanतन्nominal · vocative singular masculine
  • उम्umnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • आश्रितम्āśritamआश्रिnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • परम्paramपॄnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • भावम्bhāvamभूnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • अजाajāअज्nominal · instrumental singular masculine
  • अनन्तस्anantasअन्nominal · nominative plural masculine
  • ममmamaमाverb · perfect second plural active (√mā)
  • भूतम्bhūtamभूnominal · accusative singular masculine
  • अहahaअहindeclinable
  • ईश्वरम्īśvaramईश्वरnominal · accusative singular masculine
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

9.11 Fools disregard Me, clad in human form, not knowing My higher Being as the great Lord of (all) beings.

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8 more attributed translations
A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami PrabhupadaRelay

Fools deride Me when I descend in the human form. They do not know My transcendental nature as the Supreme Lord of all that be.

Dr.S.SankaranarayanRelay

9.11. Being unaware of the immutable highest Absolute Supreme nature of Mine, the deluded ones disregard Me dwelling in the human body.

Shri Purohit SwamiRelay

9.11 Fools disregard Me, seeing Me clad in human form. They know not that in My higher nature I am the Lord-God of all.

Sri Abhinav GuptaRelay

9.11 Avajananti etc. I am reclining within all that is born Being the Self of all, I become the object of disrespect. For, [they raise the estion] : 'Apart from the fourteen types of creation, like man etc., no Lord is found; hence how can He exist ?'

Sri RamanujaRelay

9.11 Because of their evil actions (Karmas), fools disregard Me - the great Lord of all beings, the Omniscient, whose resolves are true, who is the sole cause of the entire universe, and who has taken the human body out of great compassion so that I might become the refuge of all. They consider Me to be a man like themselves. The meaning is that they disregard Me, not knowing My higher nature which is an abode of compassion, generosity, condescension and parental solicitude. This nature of mine is the cause of My resorting to the human shape. But without understanding this, the ignorant consider Me as of the same nature as others, because I have assumed the human form.

Sri ShankaracharyaRelay

9.11 Ajanatah, not knowing; mama, My; param, supreme; bhavam, nature-My supreme Reality, which is like space, nay, which is subtler and more pervasive than space; as bhuta-maheswaram, the Lord of all beings, the great Lord of all beings who is their Self; mudhah, foolish people, the non-discriminating ones; avajananti, disregard, belittle; mam, Me, although I am by nature thus eternal, pure, intelligent, free and the Self of all beings; and asritam, who have taken; manusim tanum, a human body common to men, i.e৷৷. when I act with the help of a human body. As a result of that, as a result of continously disrespecting Me, those wretches get ruined. How?

Swami AdidevanandaRelay

9.11 Fools disregard Me, dwelling in a human form, not knowing My higher nature, as the Supreme Lord of all beings.

Swami GambiranandaRelay

9.11 Not knowing My supreme nature as the Lord of all beings, foolish people disregard Me who have taken a human body.

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