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Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 37

• Updated: Nov 13, 2020
37 (7), Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 37
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यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम् |

तत्सुखं सात्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम् |

yat tad agre viṣham iva pariṇāme ‘mṛitopamam
tat sukhaṁ sāttvikaṁ proktam ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam

भावार्थ:

हे भरतश्रेष्ठ! अब तीन प्रकार के सुख को भी तू मुझसे सुन। जिस सुख में साधक मनुष्य भजन, ध्यान और सेवादि के अभ्यास से रमण करता है और जिससे दुःखों के अंत को प्राप्त हो जाता है, जो ऐसा सुख है, वह आरंभकाल में यद्यपि विष के तुल्य प्रतीत (जैसे खेल में आसक्ति वाले बालक को विद्या का अभ्यास मूढ़ता के कारण प्रथम विष के तुल्य भासता है वैसे ही विषयों में आसक्ति वाले पुरुष को भगवद्भजन, ध्यान, सेवा आदि साधनाओं का अभ्यास मर्म न जानने के कारण प्रथम ‘विष के तुल्य प्रतीत होता’ है) होता है, परन्तु परिणाम में अमृत के तुल्य है, इसलिए वह परमात्मविषयक बुद्धि के प्रसाद से उत्पन्न होने वाला सुख सात्त्विक कहा गया है॥37

Translation

That which seems like poison at first, but tastes like nectar in the end, is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness. It is generated by the pure intellect that is situated in self-knowledge.

English Translation Of Sri Shankaracharya’s Sanskrit Commentary By Swami Gambirananda

18.37 Yat, that joy which is; iva, like; visam, poison, a source of pain; agre, in the beginning-when it first comes in the early stages of (acisition) of knowledge, detachment, meditation and absorption, since they involve great struggle; but amrtopamam, comparable to nectar; pariname, in the end, when it arises from the maturity of knowledge, detachment, etc.; and which atma-buddhi-prasadajam, arises from the purity (prasada), trasparence like water, of one’s intellect (atma-buddhi); tat, that; sukham, joy; is proktam, spoken of, by the learned ones ;as sattvikam, born of sattva. Or, the phrase atma-buddhi-prasadajam may mean ‘arising from the high degree of clearness of that atma-buddhi (knowledge of or connected with the Self)’; therefore it is born of sattva.

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