Bhagavad Gita 2.44भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्।व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते ॥
bhogaiśwvarya-prasaktānāṁ
tayāpahṛita-chetasām vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate
Sanskrit recitation
A clearer mind for action · 2.39–2.46 · Teaching
Translation
For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by such teachings, their determinate reason is not formed which is steadily bent on meditation and Samadhi (superconscious state).
Hindi translation
उस पुष्पित वाणीसे जिसका अन्तःकरण हर लिया गया है अर्थात् भोगोंकी तरफ खिंच गया है और जो भोग तथा ऐश्वर्यमें अत्यन्त आसक्त हैं, उन मनुष्योंकी परमात्मामें निश्चयात्मिका बुद्धि नहीं होती।
Meaning
Those who cling to pleasure and power cannot have steadiness of mind. They cannot concentrate or meditate. They are ever busy in planning projects for the acisition of wealth and power. Their minds are ever restless. They have no poised understanding.
After Swami Sivananda
A clearer mind for action· 2.39–2.46→
Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.
- 2.39This, which has been taught to you, is wisdom concerning Sankhya. Now listen to wisdom…
- 2.40In this, there is no loss of effort, nor is there any harm produced, nor any…
- 2.41Here, O joy of the Kurus, there is only one single-pointed determination; many-branched…
- 2.42The unwise, taking pleasure in the eulogizing words of the Vedas, utter flowery speech,…
- 2.43Full of desires, with heaven as their goal, (they speak words that are directed to ends)…
2.44For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by such…
- 2.45The Vedas deal with the three attributes; be thou above these three attributes. O Arjuna,…
- 2.46To the Brahmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of as much use as a reservoir of…
Word-by-word→
- na
- never
- bhoga
- gratification
- tayā
- by that
- buddhiḥ
- intellect
- samādhau
- fulfilment
- aiśhwarya
- luxury
- vidhīyate
- occurs
- prasaktānām
- whose minds are deeply attached
- vyavasāya-ātmikā
- resolute
- apahṛita-chetasām
- bewildered in intellect
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