गुरूनहत्वा हि महानुभावान् श्रेयो भोक्तुं भैक्ष्यमपीह लोके | हत्वार्थकामांस्तु गुरूनिहैव भुञ्जीय भोगान् रुधिरप्रदिग्धान् ||२-५||
gurūnahatvā hi mahānubhāvān śreyo bhoktuṃ bhaikṣyamapīha loke . hatvārthakāmāṃstu gurūnihaiva bhuñjīya bhogān rudhirapradigdhān ||2-5||
- gurūn
- the superiors
- ahatvā
- not killing
- hi
- certainly
- mahā-anubhāvān
- great souls
- śreyaḥ
- it is better
- bhoktum
- to enjoy life
- bhaikṣyam
- by begging
- api
- even
- iha
- in this life
- loke
- in this world
- hatvā
- killing
- artha
- gain
- kāmān
- desiring
- tu
- but
- gurūn
- superiors
- iha
- in this world
- eva
- certainly
- bhuñjīya
- one has to enjoy
- bhogān
- enjoyable things
- rudhira
- blood
- pradigdhān
- tainted with
- etat
- this
It would be better to live in this world by begging than to live at the cost of the lives of great souls who are my teachers. Even though desiring worldly gain, they are superiors. If they are killed, everything we enjoy will be tainted with blood.