श्रीशुक उवाच धर्मव्यतिक्रमो दृष्ट ईश्वराणां च साहसम् । तेजीयसां न दोषाय वह्ने: सर्वभुजो यथा ॥ २९ ॥
śrī-śuka uvāca dharma-vyatikramo dṛṣṭa īśvarāṇāṁ ca sāhasam tejīyasāṁ na doṣāya vahneḥ sarva-bhujo yathā
- śrī-śukaḥ uvāca
- Śrī Śukadeva Gosvāmī said
- dharma-vyatikramaḥ
- the transgression of religious or moral principles
- dṛṣṭaḥ
- seen
- īśvarāṇām
- of powerful controllers
- ca
- even
- sāhasam
- due to audacity
- tejīyasām
- who are spiritually potent
- na
- does not
- doṣāya
- (lead) to any fault
- vahneḥ
- of fire
- sarva
- everything
- bhujaḥ
- devouring
- yathā
- as
Śukadeva Gosvāmī said: The status of powerful controllers is not harmed by any apparently audacious transgression of morality we may see in them, for they are just like fire, which devours everything fed into it and remains unpolluted.