न कुर्यात्कर्हिचित्सङ्गं तमस्तीव्रं तितीरिषु: । धर्मार्थकाममोक्षाणां यदत्यन्तविघातकम् ॥ ३४ ॥
na kuryat karhicit sangam tamas tivram titirisuh dharmartha-kama-moksanam yad atyanta-vighatakam
- na
- do not
- kuryat
- act
- karhicit
- at any time
- sangam
- association
- tamah
- ignorance
- tivram
- with great speed
- titirisuh
- persons who desire to cross over nescience
- dharma
- religion
- artha
- economic development
- kama
- sense gratification
- moksanam
- of salvation
- yat
- that which
- atyanta
- very much
- vighatakam
- obstruction or stumbling block.
Those who strongly desire to cross the ocean of nescience must not associate with the modes of ignorance, for hedonistic activities are the greatest obstructions to realization of religious principles, economic development, regulated sense gratification and, at last, liberation.