श्रीभगवानुवाच प्रायेण मनुजा लोके लोकतत्त्वविचक्षणा: । समुद्धरन्ति ह्यात्मानमात्मनैवाशुभाशयात् ॥ १९ ॥
śrī-bhagavān uvāca prāyeṇa manujā loke loka-tattva-vicakṣaṇāḥ samuddharanti hy ātmānam ātmanaivāśubhāśayāt
- śrī-bhagavān uvāca
- Lord Kṛṣṇa said
- prāyeṇa
- in general
- manujāḥ
- humans
- loke
- in this world
- loka-tattva
- the factual situation of the material world
- vicakṣaṇāḥ
- who know expertly
- samuddharanti
- they deliver
- hi
- indeed
- ātmānam
- themselves
- ātmanā
- by their own intelligence
- eva
- indeed
- aśubha-āśayāt
- from the inauspicious attitude of desiring sense gratification
The Supreme Lord replied: Generally those human beings who can expertly analyze the actual situation of the material world are able to raise themselves beyond the inauspicious life of gross material gratification.