18.35 यया स्वप्नं भयं शोकं विषादं मदमेव च।न विमुञ्चति दुर्मेधा धृतिः सा पार्थ तामसी
yayā svapnaṃ bhayaṃ śokaṃ viṣādaṃ madam
Word meanings
yayā—in which;svapnam—dreaming;bhayam—fearing;śhokam—grieving;viṣhādam—despair;madam—conceit;eva—indeed;cha—and;na—not;vimuñchati—give up;durmedhā—unintelligent;dhṛitiḥ—resolve;sā—that;pārtha—Arjun, the son of Pritha;tāmasī—in the mode of ignorance
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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The contentment where a foolish man does not give up his sleep, fear, grief, despondency, and arrogance—that contentment is deemed to be of the Tamas (Strand).
And that which clings perversely to false idealism, fear, grief, despair and vanity is the product of Ignorance.
That Dhrti by which a foolish person does not give up sleep, fear, grief, depression and passion, O Arjuna, is of the nature of Tamas.
That firmness is considered [Some editions read partha in place of mata (considered).-Tr.] to be born of tamas due to which a person with a corrupt intellect does not give up sleep, fear, sorrow, despondency as also sensuquality.
That by which a stupid man does not abandon sleep, fear, grief, despair and also conceit–that firmness, O Arjuna, is Tamasic!
18.37 यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्।तत्सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्
yat
Word meanings
yat—which;tat—that;agre—at first;viṣham iva—like poison;pariṇāme—in the end;amṛita-upamam—like nectar;tat—that;sukham—happiness;sāttvikam—in the mode of goodness;proktam—is said to be;ātma-buddhi—situated in self-knowledge;prasāda-jam—generated by the pure intellect
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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[The happiness] which is like poison in the moment but is like nectar in the result—that happiness, born of serenity of the soul and intellect, you must know to be of the sattva (strand).
Which at first seems like poison but afterwards acts like nectar - that pleasure is Pure, for it is born of Wisdom.
That which is like a poison at first but becomes like elixir in the end, born from the serene state of mind focusing on the self - such pleasure is said to be Sattvika.
That which is like poison in the beginning, but comparable to nectar in the end, and which, arises from the purity of one's intellect-that joy is spoken of as born of sattva.
That which is like poison at first but in the end like nectar–that pleasure is declared to be Sattwic, born of the purity of one’s own mind due to Self-realisation.
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मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 18: Free Yourself Through Renunciation
mokṣasaṃnyāsayoga
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18.36 सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति
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Word meanings
sukham—happiness;tu—but;idānīm—now;tri-vidham—of three kinds;śhṛiṇu—hear;me—from me;bharata-ṛiṣhabha—Arjun, the best of the Bharatas;abhyāsāt—by practice;ramate—rejoices;yatra—in which;duḥkha-antam—end of all suffering;cha—and;nigachchhati—reaches
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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O best among the Bharatas! Now, you must also listen to Me about the three-fold happiness, wherein one delights in practice and attains the end of suffering.
Hear further the three kinds of pleasure. That which increases day after day delivers one from misery,
Now hear from Me, O Arjuna, the threefold division of pleasure৷৷. that in which a man rejoices by long practice and in which he comes to the end of pain;
Now hear from Me, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, as regards the three kinds of joy: That in which one delights owing to habit, and certainly attains the cessation of sorrows; [S. and S.S. take the second line of this verse along with the next verse referring to sattvika happiness.-Tr.]
Now hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices by practice and surely comes to the end of pain!
