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CHAPTER 11 · VERSE 29

Bhagavad Gita 11.29

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यथा प्रदीप्तं ज्वलनं पतङ्गा विशन्ति नाशाय समृद्धवेगाः। तथैव नाशाय विशन्ति लोका- स्तवापि वक्त्राणि समृद्धवेगाः॥

As moths fly impetuously into a blazing fire to their own destruction, so do these creatures rush with headlong speed into Your mouths for destruction.

Uses the moth-to-flame metaphor to describe how living entities rush unconsciously into the jaws of mortality.

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