कुतो नु तद्धेतव ईश तत्कृतालोभादयो येऽबुधलिङ्गभावा: । तथापि दण्डं भगवान् बिभर्तिधर्मस्य गुप्त्यै लनिग्रहाय ॥ ५ ॥
kuto nu tad-dhetava īśa tat-kṛtā lobhādayo ye ’budha-linga-bhāvāḥ tathāpi daṇḍaṁ bhagavān bibharti dharmasya guptyai khala-nigrahāya
- kutaḥ
- how
- nu
- certainly
- tat
- of that (existence of the material body)
- hetavaḥ
- the causes
- īśa
- O Lord
- tat-kṛtāḥ
- produced by one’s connection with the material body
- lobha-ādayaḥ
- greed and so forth
- ye
- which
- abudha
- of an ignorant person
- linga-bhāvāḥ
- symptoms
- tathā api
- nevertheless
- daṇḍam
- punishment
- bhagavān
- the Supreme Personality of Godhead
- bibharti
- wields
- dharmasya
- of the principles of religion
- guptyai
- for the protection
- khala
- of wicked persons
- nigrahāya
- for the chastisement
How, then, could there exist in You the symptoms of an ignorant person — such as greed, lust, anger and envy — which are produced by one’s previous involvement in material existence and which cause one to become further entangled in material existence? And yet as the Supreme Lord You impose punishment to protect religious principles and curb down the wicked.