38 (7), Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 38
38 (7), Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 18, Verse 38

विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम् |

परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम् ||

viṣhayendriya-sanyogād yat tad agre ’mṛitopamam
pariṇāme viṣham iva tat sukhaṁ rājasaṁ smṛitam

भावार्थ:

जो सुख विषय और इंद्रियों के संयोग से होता है, वह पहले- भोगकाल में अमृत के तुल्य प्रतीत होने पर भी परिणाम में विष के तुल्य (बल, वीर्य, बुद्धि, धन, उत्साह और परलोक का नाश होने से विषय और इंद्रियों के संयोग से होने वाले सुख को ‘परिणाम में विष के तुल्य’ कहा है) है इसलिए वह सुख राजस कहा गया है॥38॥

Translation

Happiness is said to be in the mode of passion when it is derived from the contact of the senses with their objects. Such happiness is like nectar at first but poison at the end.

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

18.38 Tat, that; sukham, joy; is smrtam, referred to; as rajasam, born of rajas; yat, which; visaya-indriya-samyogat, arising from the contact of the organs and (their) objects; is amrtopamam, like nectar; agre, in the beginning, in the intial moments; but iva, like; visam, poison; pariname, at the end-at the end of full enjoyment of the objects (of the senses), because it causes loss of strength, vigour, beauty, wisdom, [Prajna, the capacity to understand whatever is heard.] retentive faculty, wealth and diligence, and because it is the cause of vice and its conseent hell etc.

See also  Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 13, Verse 34

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