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Bhagavad Gita 18.36

By Bhagavan Sri Krishna | Published 08/17/2005
Category: The Gita: Chapter 18
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Text 36 

sukham tv idanim tri-vidham
shrinu me bharatarsabha
abhyasad ramate yatra
duhkhantam ca nigacchati

Translation

O best of the Bharatas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness by which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the end of all distress.

Commentary by Srila Prabhupada 

A conditioned soul tries to enjoy material happiness again and again. Thus he chews the chewed. But sometimes, in the course of such enjoyment, he becomes relieved from material entanglement by association with a great soul. In other words, a conditioned soul is always engaged in some type of sense gratification, but when he understands by good association that it is only a repetition of the same thing, and he is awakened to his real Krishna consciousness, he is sometimes relieved from such repetitive so-called happiness.

Commentary by Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur

Please see text 37 for Sri Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakur's combined commentary to texts 36 and 37.


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