Word meanings
- cintām
- anxieties
- aparimeyām
- endless
- ca
- and
- pralaya-antām
- until death
- upāśritāḥ
- taking refuge
- kāma-upabhoga
- gratification of desires
- paramāḥ
- the purpose of life
- etāvat
- still
- iti
- thus
- niścitāḥ
- with complete assurance
Translations
Giving themselves over to immeasurable cares that end only with death, regarding the gratification of lust as their highest aim, and feeling sure that that is all.
Poring anxiously over evil resolutions that only end in death, seeking only the gratification of desire as the highest goal, and seeing nothing beyond—
Beset with innumerable cares that end only with death, holding that the enjoyment of desirable objects is the highest goal, they feel sure that this is all.
वे मृत्युपर्यन्त रहनेवाली अपार चिन्ताओंका आश्रय लेनेवाले, पदार्थोंका संग्रह और उनका भोग करनेमें ही लगे रहनेवाले और 'जो कुछ है, वह इतना ही है' -- ऐसा निश्चय करनेवाले होते हैं।Commentary
They are beset with immense cares, worries and anxieties and their minds are engrossed in aciring and preserving the countless sensual objects. They have got the strong conviction that the sensual enjoyment is the highest end of a man. They are steeped in enjoying the objects of the senses. They firmly believe that that is everything. They believe that sensual enjoyment is the supreme source of happiness and there is no such thing as eternal bliss of the soul or transcendental bliss of the Self.
They have no belief in the happiness in another world (or plane) or in the perennial bliss which is independent of sensual objects, which is beyond the reach of the senses. They have a dull and gross intellect, and so they cannot grasp the subtle higher truth. Sensual enjoyment is the greatest object of attainment for them.