Ādi 3.23

TEXT 23

TEXT

পরিত্রাণায় সাধূনাং বিনাশায় চ দুষ্কৃতাম্‌ ।
ধর্মসংস্থাপনার্থায় সম্ভবামি যুগে যুগে ॥ ২৩ ॥

paritranaya sadhunam

vinasaya ca duskrtam

dharma-samsthapanarthaya

sambhavami yuge yuge

SYNONYMS

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.

TRANSLATION

"'To deliver the pious and to annihilate the miscreants, as well as to reestablish the principles of religion, I Myself appear, millennium after millennium.'

PURPORT

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).

[Adi 3.23-1957]