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Bhagavad Gītā 16.8

BG 16.8

असत्यमप्रतिष्ठं ते जगदाहुरनीश्वरम्।अपरस्परसम्भूतं किमन्यत्कामहैतुकम्

asatyam apratiṣhṭhaṁ te jagad āhur anīśhvaram aparaspara-sambhūtaṁ kim anyat kāma-haitukam

They say the universe is an accident with no purpose and no God. Life is created through sexual union, a product of lust and nothing else.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

They say, "This universe is without truth, without a moral basis, without a God, brought about by mutual union, with lust as its cause; what else?"

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

asatyam—without absolute truth; apratiṣhṭham—without any basis; te—they; jagat—the world; āhuḥ—say; anīśhvaram—without a God; aparaspara—without cause; sambhūtam—created; kim—what; anyat—other; kāma-haitukam—for sexual gratification only

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 16.8, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/16.8), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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