नूनं तपो यस्य न मन्युनिर्जयो ज्ञानं क्वचित् तच्च न सङ्गवर्जितम् । कश्चिन्महांस्तस्य न कामनिर्जय: स ईश्वर: किं परतोव्यपाश्रय: ॥ २० ॥
nunam tapo yasya na manyu-nirjayo jnanam kvacit tac ca na sanga-varjitam kascin mahams tasya na kama-nirjayah sa isvarah kim parato vyapasrayah
- nunam
- certainly
- tapah
- austerity
- yasya
- of someone
- na
- not
- manyu
- anger
- nirjayah
- conquered
- jnanam
- knowledge
- kvacit
- in some saintly person
- tat
- that
- ca
- also
- na
- not
- sanga-varjitam
- without the contamination of association
- kascit
- someone
- mahan
- a very great exalted person
- tasya
- his
- na
- not
- kama
- material desires
- nirjayah
- conquered
- sah
- such a person
- isvarah
- controller
- kim
- how can he be
- paratah
- of others
- vyapasrayah
- under the control
The goddess of fortune, examining the assembly, thought in this way: Someone who has undergone great austerity has not yet conquered anger. Someone possesses knowledge, but he has not conquered material desires. Someone is a very great personality, but he cannot conquer lusty desires. Even a great personality depends on something else. How, then, can he be the supreme controller?