Chapter 9, Verse 30
अपि चेत्सुदुराचारो भजते मामनन्यभाक्। साधुरेव स मन्तव्यः सम्यग्व्यवसितो हि सः।।9.30।।
api cetsudurācāro bhajate māmananyabhāk. sādhureva sa mantavyaḥ samyagvyavasito hi saḥ.9.30.
Word by word
- api
- even, also
- cet
- if
- su-durācāraḥ
- a person of very evil/bad conduct
- bhajate
- worships, devotes himself to
- mām
- me
- ananya-bhāk
- with undivided/exclusive devotion
- sādhuḥ
- righteous, virtuous, saintly (one)
- eva
- indeed, verily (emphatic)
- saḥ
- he
- mantavyaḥ
- is to be regarded/considered
- samyak
- rightly, correctly, properly
- vyavasitaḥ
- resolved, determined (in his purpose)
- hi
- indeed, for (reason/emphasis)
- saḥ
- he
Commentary
If one of even very evil life worships Me, resorting to none else, he must indeed be deemed righteous, for he is rightly resolved.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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api
cet
su-durācāraḥ
bhajate
mām
ananya-bhāk
sādhuḥ
eva
saḥ
mantavyaḥ
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saḥ
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