Word meanings
- sukham
- happiness
- tu
- but
- idānīm
- now
- tri-vidham
- of three kinds
- śṛṇu
- hear
- me
- from me
- bharata-ṛṣabha
- Arjun, the best of the Bharatas
- abhyāsāt
- by practice
- ramate
- rejoices
- yatra
- in which
- duḥkha-antam
- end of all suffering
- ca
- and
- nigacchati
- reaches yat—which
- tat
- that
- agre
- at first
- viṣam iva
- like poison
- pariṇāme
- in the end
- amṛta-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
Translations
And now, O Arjuna, hear from Me of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices through practice and surely comes to the end of pain.
Hear further the three kinds of pleasure. That which increases day by day delivers one from misery.
Now hear from Me, O scion of the Bharata dynasty, as regards the three kinds of joy: That in which one delights due 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.]
हे भरतवंशियोंमें श्रेष्ठ अर्जुन ! अब तीन प्रकारके सुखको भी तुम मेरेसे सुनो। जिसमें अभ्याससे रमण होता है और जिससे दुःखोंका अन्त हो जाता है, ऐसा वह परमात्मविषयक बुद्धिकी प्रसन्नतासे पैदा होनेवाला जो सुख (सांसारिक आसक्तिके कारण) आरम्भमें विषकी तरह और परिणाममें अमृतकी तरह होता है, वह सुख सात्त्विक कहा गया है।Commentary
A little of this pleasure experienced by the Self must result in the cessation of pain. This pleasure is threefold in its nature and I will describe its aspects in turn? O Arjuna. (Cf.VI.20-30).