पुरुषा यदि मुह्यन्ति त्वादृशा देवमायया । श्रम एव परं जातो दीर्घया वृद्धसेवया ॥ ४ ॥
purusa yadi muhyanti tvadrsa deva-mayaya srama eva param jato dirghaya vrddha-sevaya
- purusah
- persons
- yadi
- if
- muhyanti
- become bewildered
- tvadrsah
- like you
- deva
- of the Supreme Lord
- mayaya
- by the energy
- sramah
- exertion
- eva
- certainly
- param
- only
- jatah
- produced
- dirghaya
- for a long time
- vrddha-sevaya
- by serving the superiors.
If a personality like you, who are so much advanced because of executing the instructions of the previous acaryas, is carried away by the influence of My material energy, then all your advancement may be considered simply a waste of time.