18.36 सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति
sukhaṃ tv
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!
18.38 विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्।परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम्
viṣay
Word meanings
viṣhaya—with the sense objects;indriya—the senses;sanyogāt—from the contact;yat—which;tat—that;agre—at first;amṛita-upamam—like nectar;pariṇāme—at the end;viṣham iva—like poison;tat—that;sukham—happiness;rājasam—in the mode of passion;smṛitam—is said to be
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Divine Verses of the Bhagavad Gita • Swami Dayananda Saraswati
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[The happiness] which is like nectar at its due time due to the contact between the senses and sense-objects; but which is like poison at the time of its result—that is considered to be of the Rajas (Strand).
That which as first is like nectar, because the senses revel in their objects, but in the end acts like poison - that pleasure arises from Passion.
That pleasure which arises from the contact of senses with their objects, which is like elixir at first but like poison in the end, is said to be Rajasika.
That joy is referred to as born of rajas which, arising from the contact of the organs and (their) objects, is like nectar in the beginning, but like poison at the end.
That pleasure which arises from the contact of the sense-organs with the objects, which is at first like nectar and in the end like poison–that is declared to be Rajasic.
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मोक्षसंन्यासयोग
Chapter 18: Free Yourself Through Renunciation
mokṣasaṃnyāsayoga
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18.37 यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्।तत्सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्
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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.
