य: शास्त्रविधिमुत्सृज्य वर्तते कामकारत: ।
न स सिद्धिमवाप्नोति न सुखं न परां गतिम् ॥
yaḥ śāstra-vidhim utsṛjya vartate kāma-cārataḥ |
na sa siddhim avāpnoti na sukhaṁ na parāṁ gatim ||
(Śrīmad Bhagavad-gītā: 16.23)
“One who rejects the injunctions of śāstra and remains engaged in willful behavior attains neither success, nor happiness, nor the supreme destination.”
Commentary
Śrīdhara Svāmīpāda comments that ‘success’ means knowledge of Tattva (siddhiṁ tattva-jñānaṁ na prāpnoti). Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa comments that ‘success’ means the purification of the heart necessary for [attaining] the objectives of human life (siddhiṁ pumarthopāya-bhūtāṁ hṛd-viśuddhiṁ). Śrīdhara Svāmīpāda and Baladeva Vidyābhūṣaṇa comment that the ‘supreme destination’ means liberation (parāṁ gatiṁ mokṣaṁ; parāṁ gatiṁ muktiṁ).