भजन्ति ये यथा देवान् देवा अपि तथैव तान् । छायेव कर्मसचिवा: साधवो दीनवत्सला: ॥ ६ ॥
bhajanti ye yathā devān devā api tathaiva tān chāyeva karma-sacivāḥ sādhavo dīna-vatsalāḥ
- bhajanti
- worship
- ye
- they who
- yathā
- in which way
- devān
- the demigods
- devāḥ
- the demigods
- api
- also
- tathā eva
- just in that way
- tān
- them
- chāyā
- in a shadow
- iva
- as if
- karma
- of material work and its reactions
- sacivāḥ
- the attendants
- sādhavaḥ
- saintly persons
- dīna-vatsalāḥ
- merciful to the fallen
Those who worship the demigods receive reciprocation from the demigods in a way just corresponding to the offering. The demigods are attendants of karma, like a person’s shadow, but sādhus are actually merciful to the fallen.