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Bhagavad Gita 18.36सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥

sukhaṁ tv idānīṁ tri-vidhaṁ śhṛiṇu me bharatarṣhabha abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṁ cha

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

Sanskrit recitation

18.3518.37
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Knowledge, work, and the worker · 18.29–18.40 · Teaching

Translation

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.

Hindi translation

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।

Meaning

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).

After Swami Sivananda

Knowledge, work, and the worker· 18.29–18.40→

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word→
me
from me
tu
but
cha
and
tat
that
agre
at first
yatra
in which
ramate
rejoices
sukham
happiness
proktam
is said to be
idānīm
now
abhyāsāt
by practice
sāttvikam
in the mode of goodness
tri-vidham
of three kinds
pariṇāme
in the end
śhṛiṇu
hear
nigachchhati
reaches yat—which
prasāda-jam
generated by the pure intellect
viṣham iva
like poison
ātma-buddhi
situated in self-knowledge
duḥkha-antam
end of all suffering
amṛita-upamam
like nectar
bharata-ṛiṣhabha
Arjun, the best of the Bharatas

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