Having reached, having entered, an asuric womb, the deluded, the undiscerning, being born birth after birth, in every birth, in wombs of much darkness, going downward, the deluded, not having reached Me, the Lord, not having attained Me, O son of Kuntī, go thereby to a still lower course, a most degraded course. By 'not having reached Me' it is not that there is any suspicion of their reaching Me; so the sense is, not having reached the good path of those who keep to Me. The brief summary of the whole asuric endowment is now told, the threefold thing in which the whole endless variety of the asuric endowment is included, by avoiding which it is avoided, the root of all harm.

Having come to births at odds with conformity to Me, again, birth after birth, deluded, of knowledge contrary to Me, not attaining Me, not attaining the knowledge that the Blessed One Vasudeva, the Lord of all, is, they go, from that and that birth, to a course that is the lowest of all. The Lord states the root cause of this demonic nature, which is the destruction of the self.

This is a brief sub-gloss. For a fuller reading of this verse, see Madhusūdana, Śaṅkara, or Rāmānuja above.

Madhvacharya does not comment on this verse.