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Pitiable are those whose motives are the fruits of action

July 13, 2019 ~ Walter Shandy ~ Leave a comment

From the Bhagavad Gita (2.49). I am freshly arrived at Sanskrit and very much at the stage where precise literality of translation is more important than smooth rendering.

Far away indeed is worse action from balanced intellect, o winner of wealth. In the intellect seek refuge. Pitiable are those whose motives are the fruits of actions.

“It will be seen that this mere painstaking burrower and grub-worm of a poor devil of a Sub-Sub appears to have gone through the long Vaticans and street-stalls of the earth, picking up whatever random curiosities he could anyways find in any book whatsoever, sacred or profane” – prologue to Moby Dick

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