পরিত্রাণায় সাধূনাং বিনাশায় চ দুষ্কৃতাম্ ।
ধর্মসংস্থাপনার্থায় সম্ভবামি যুগে যুগে ॥ ২৩ ॥
paritranaya-for the deliverance; sadhunam-of the devotees; vinasaya-for the destruction; ca-and; duskrtam-of the miscreants; dharma-religious principles; samsthapana-arthaya-for the purpose of establishing; sambhavami-I appear; yuge yuge-in every age.
"'To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.'
Texts 22 and 23 were spoken by Lord
Krsna in
Bhagavad-gita (
4.7-
8). Texts 24 and 25, which follow, are also from
Bhagavad-gita (
3.24,
21).