Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Srimad Bhagavatam 11.23.46

samahitam yasya manah prasantam

danadibhih kim vada tasya krtyam

asamyatam yasya mano vinasyad

danadibhis ced aparam kim ebhih

SYNONYMS

samahitam -- perfectly fixed; yasya -- whose; manah -- mind; prasantam -- pacified; dana-adibhih -- by charity and the other processes; kim -- what; vada -- please tell; tasya -- of those processes; krtyam -- use; asamyatam -- uncontrolled; yasya -- whose; manah -- mind; vinasyat -- dissolving; dana-adibhih -- by these processes of charity and so on; cet -- if; aparam -- further; kim -- what use; ebhih -- of these.

TRANSLATION

If one's mind is perfectly fixed and pacified, then tell me what need does one have to perform ritualistic charity and other pious rituals? And if one's mind remains uncontrolled, lost in ignorance, then of what use are these engagements for him?

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