4.36 api chEdhasi pApEbhya:

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Chapter 4

<< Chapter 4 verse 35

SlOkam – Original

api chEdhasi pApEbhya: sarvEbhya: pApakruththama: |
sarvam gyAnaplavEnaiva vrujinam santharishyasi ||

word-by-word meaning

sarvEbhaya: pApEbhya: – than all sinners
pApakruththama: api chEth asi – even if you are a greater sinner
sarvam vrujinam – all those ocean of sins
gyAnaplavEna Eva – with the boat of knowledge about self
santharishyasi – will cross-over.

Simple Translation

Even if you are a greater sinner than all sinners, you will cross-over all those ocean of sins with the boat of knowledge about self.

Rendering based on ALkoNdavilli gOvindhAchArya swAmy’s English translation of gIthA bhAshyam

‘Were you an evil-doer, even greater than the
greatest sinners, you should yet, with this wisdom-bark, swim across (the sea of) evil.’

Supposing that you were a sinner greater than the greatest sinners, you would yet be able to cross the sea of long-hoarded sins, by means of the bark of ātma-wisdom (or ātma-knowledge).

>> Chapter 4 verse 37

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