नादत्ते कस्यचित्पापं न चैव सुकृतं विभुः।अज्ञानेनावृतं ज्ञानं तेन मुह्यन्ति जन्तवः॥
nādatte kasyacit pāpaṃ na caiva sukṛtaṃ vibhuḥajñānenāvṛtaṃ jñānaṃ tena muhyanti jantavaḥ
शब्दार्थ
व्याख्या अभी अंग्रेज़ी में उपलब्ध है। हिन्दी व्याख्या एक-एक अध्याय करके जोड़ी जा रही है।
श्लोक कहता है
The all-pervading takes on no one's wrongdoing, and no one's good deed either. Knowing is covered over by not-knowing, and that is why creatures are confused.
सरल शब्दों में
Nobody's account is being kept by the one in charge.
Not the bad. And, the verse is careful to add, not the good either.
The confusion people live in is explained by something else: knowing is covered up.
आपने इसे कहाँ महसूस किया है
You ask your grandfather why a good man you both knew had such a hard time of it. He says he does not know, and he does not offer you a reason. He has also walked to the temple every morning for fifty years. Those two things sit side by side in him without strain.
और गहराई में
The even-handedness is what makes this verse hard, and it is deliberate.
If the divine took on no one's wrongdoing, that would be a relief. But the same sentence refuses the good deed as well, which removes the arrangement most religious people are actually living inside — the one where merit is noticed and stored somewhere.
Vibhu — the all-pervading, the one extending everywhere. Present in everything, and keeping no ledger about any of it.
And then the explanation for why life does not feel like this: ajñāna covers knowing. Not sin covers knowing. The problem is diagnosed as blindness rather than guilt, which is consistent with how this book has handled every failure so far.
Where the traditions genuinely split is what that leaves. If nothing is being assigned from above, some read the Gita as describing a lawful universe with real freedom inside it. Others read the covering itself as the divine at work. Both readings have serious weight behind them, and this edition names the split rather than quietly picking a side.