दरिद्रस्यैव युज्यन्ते साधव: समदर्शिन: । सद्भि: क्षिणोति तं तर्षं तत आराद्विशुद्ध्यति ॥ १७ ॥
daridrasyaiva yujyante sādhavaḥ sama-darśinaḥ sadbhiḥ kṣiṇoti taṁ tarṣaṁ tata ārād viśuddhyati
- daridrasya
- of a person who is poverty-stricken
- eva
- indeed
- yujyante
- may easily associate
- sādhavaḥ
- saintly persons
- sama-darśinaḥ
- although sādhus are equal to everyone, to the poor and the rich, the poor man can take advantage of their association
- sadbhiḥ
- by the association of such saintly persons
- kṣiṇoti
- reduces
- tam
- the original cause of material suffering
- tarṣam
- the desire for material enjoyment
- tataḥ
- thereafter
- ārāt
- very soon
- viśuddhyati
- his material contamination is cleansed off
Saintly persons may freely associate with those who are poverty-stricken, but not with those who are rich. A poverty-stricken man, by association with saintly persons, very soon becomes uninterested in material desires, and the dirty things within the core of his heart are cleansed away.