BG 17.5-6

अशास्त्रविहितं घोरं तप्यन्ते ये तपो जनाः ।
दम्भाहङ्कारसंयुक्ताः कामरागबलान्विताः ॥
कर्षयन्तः शरीरस्थं भूतग्राममचेतसः ।
मां चैवान्तः शरीरस्थं तान्विद्ध्यासुरनिश्चयान् ॥
aśāstra-vihitaṁ ghoraṁ tapyante ye tapo janāḥ
dambhāhaṅkāra-saṁyuktāḥ kāma-rāga-balānvitāḥ
karṣayantaḥ śarīra-sthaṁ bhūta-grāmam acetasaḥ
māṁ caivāntaḥ śarīra-sthaṁ tān viddhy āsura-niścayān

Word-for-word meanings

ye — those;  janāḥ — persons;  saṁyuktāḥ — who are fraught;  dambha — [with] ostentation;  ahaṅkāra — [and] egotism;  anvitāḥ — [and] who are impelled;  kāma — [by] desire;  rāga — attachment;  bala — [and] virility;  tapyante — perform;  ghoram — terrible;  tapaḥ — austerities;  aśāstra-vihitam — not approved in the scriptures;  acetasaḥ — being bereft of discrimination;  karṣayantaḥ — they torture;  bhūta-grāmam — the elements;  śarīra-stham — constituting the body;  ca — and;  mām eva — Me indeed;  antaḥ śarīra-stham — situated interior to the body;  viddhi — know;  tān — them;  āsura-niścayān — to be of ungodly resolve.

Translation

Those persons who are fraught with ostentation and egotism, and who are impelled by desire, attachment, and virility, perform terrible austerities not approved by the scriptures. Being bereft of discrimination, they torture the elements constituting their bodies as well as Me situated interior to the body. Know them to be of ungodly resolve.

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