Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.17

kas tam svayam tad-abhijño vipaścid

avidyāyām antare vartamānam

drishtvā punas tam saghrinah kubuddhim

prayojayed utpathagam yathāndham

SYNONYMS

kah — who is that person; tam — him; svayam — personally; tat-abhijñah — knowing spiritual knowledge; vipaścit — a learned scholar; avidyāyām antare — in ignorance; vartamānam — existing; drishtvā — seeing; punah — again; tam — him; sa-ghrinah — very merciful; ku-buddhim — who is addicted to the path of samsāra; prayojayet — would engage; utpatha-gam — who is proceeding on the wrong path; yathā — like; andham — a blind man.

TRANSLATION

If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of samsāra, how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual knowledge engage him in fruitive activity and thus further entangle him in material existence? If a blind man is walking down the wrong path, how can a gentleman allow him to continue on his way to danger? How can he approve this method? No wise or kind man can allow this.

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