Chapter 4 · Knowledge and Renunciation of Action

श्रीकृष्णŚrī Kṛṣṇa speaks

Text 4.36

अपि चेदसि पापेभ्य: सर्वेभ्य: पापकृत्तम: सर्वं ज्ञानप्लवेनैव वृजिनं सन्तरिष्यसि

api ched asi pāpebhyaḥ sarvebhyaḥ pāpa-kṛit-tamaḥ sarvaṁ jñāna-plavenaiva vṛijinaṁ santariṣhyasi

Recitation · Text 4.36
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Word-for-Word Śabda-Artha (11 words)

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One of the chapter's most generous lines: even if you were the most wrongdoing of all wrongdoers, you would cross over every fault by the boat of knowledge. The image is of being carried across, not of the water being drained away.

✨ Devotional Takeaway:The image is of being carried across the water, not of the water being drained away.