श्रीवसुदेव उवाच भ्रातरीशकृत: पाशो नृणां य: स्नेहसंज्ञित: । तं दुस्त्यजमहं मन्ये शूराणामपि योगिनाम् ॥ ६१ ॥
śrī-vasudeva uvāca bhrātar īśa-kṛtaḥ pāśo nṛnāṁ yaḥ sneha-saṁjñitaḥ taṁ dustyajam ahaṁ manye śūrāṇām api yoginām
- śrī-vasudevaḥ uvāca
- Śrī Vasudeva said
- bhrātaḥ
- O brother
- īśa
- by the Supreme Lord
- kṛtaḥ
- made
- pāśaḥ
- the noose
- nṛṇām
- of men
- yaḥ
- which
- sneha
- affection
- saṁjñitaḥ
- named
- tam
- it
- dustyajam
- difficult to free oneself from
- aham
- I
- manye
- think
- śūrāṇām
- for heroes
- api
- even
- yoginām
- and for yogīs.
Śrī Vasudeva said: My dear brother, God Himself has tied the knot called affection, which tightly binds human beings together. It seems to me that even great heroes and mystics find it very difficult to free themselves from it.