Verse 16.20
आसुरीं योनिमापन्ना मूढा जन्मनि जन्मनि ।
मामप्राप्यैव कौन्तेय ततो यान्त्यधमां गतिम् ॥
Transliteration
āsurīṃ yonimāpannā mūḍhā janmani janmani |
māmaprāpyaiva kaunteya tato yāntyadhamāṃ gatim ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Entering into demoniacal wombs and deluded, birth after birth, not attaining Me, they thus fall, O Arjuna, into a condition still lower than that.
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Falling into demonic wombs birth after birth, the deluded, never reaching me, son of Kunti, go from there to a still lower state.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
The decline continues. Entering demonic births life after life, such people never reach Krishna and sink even lower. The verse stresses how habits harden across lifetimes, each birth reinforcing the tendencies of the last. Yet the phrase never reaching me implies that reaching him was possible, and the following verses immediately show the way out. The picture is a warning, not a closed door, offered to make the cost of the demonic path clear.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08