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Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 5.5.17
kas taḿ svayaḿ tad-abhijño vipaścid
avidyāyām antare vartamānam
dṛṣṭvā punas taḿ saghṛṇaḥ kubuddhiḿ
prayojayed utpathagaḿ yathāndham
SYNONYMS
kaḥ — who is that person; tam — him; svayam — personally; tat-abhijñaḥ — knowing spiritual knowledge; vipaścit — a learned scholar; avidyāyām antare — in ignorance; vartamānam — existing; dṛṣṭvā — seeing; punaḥ — again; tam — him; sa-ghṛṇaḥ — very merciful; ku-buddhim — who is addicted to the path of saḿsāra; prayojayet — would engage; utpatha-gam — who is proceeding on the wrong path; yathā — like; andham — a blind man.
TRANSLATION
If someone is ignorant and addicted to the path of saḿsāra, how can one who is actually learned, merciful and advanced in spiritual knowledge engage him in fruitive activity and thus further entangle him in material existence? If a blind man is walking down the wrong path, how can a gentleman allow him to continue on his way to danger? How can he approve this method? No wise or kind man can allow this.
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