न ते मामङ्ग जानन्ति हृदिस्थं य इदं यत: । उक्थशस्त्रा ह्यसुतृपो यथा नीहारचक्षुष: ॥ २८ ॥
na te mām aṅga jānanti hṛdi-sthaṁ ya idaṁ yataḥ uktha-śastrā hy asu-tṛpo yathā nīhāra-cakṣuṣaḥ
- na
- do not
- te
- they
- mām
- Me
- aṅga
- My dear Uddhava
- jānanti
- know
- hṛdi-stham
- seated within the heart
- yaḥ
- who is
- idam
- this created universe
- yataḥ
- from whom it comes
- uktha-śastrāḥ
- who consider Vedic ritual activities to be praiseworthy, or else, for whom their own ritualistic performances are like the weapon that kills the sacrificial animal
- hi
- indeed
- asu-tṛpaḥ
- interested only in sense gratification
- yathā
- just as
- nīhāra
- in fog
- cakṣuṣaḥ
- those whose eyes
My dear Uddhava, persons dedicated to sense gratification obtained through honoring the Vedic rituals cannot understand that I am situated in everyone’s heart and that the entire universe is nondifferent from Me and emanates from Me. Indeed, they are just like persons whose eyes are covered by fog.