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Bhagavad-gītā 18.36
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A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
TEXT 36
- सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ ।
- अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥३६॥
- sukhaṁ tv idānīṁ tri-vidhaṁ
- śṛṇu me bharatarṣabha
- abhyāsād ramate yatra
- duḥkhāntaṁ ca nigacchati
sukhamhappiness — happiness; tubut — but; idānīmnow — now; triof three kinds-vidhamof three kinds — of three kinds; śṛṇuhear — hear; mefrom Me — from Me; bharataO best amongst the Bhāratas-ṛṣabhaO best amongst the Bhāratas — O best amongst the Bhāratas; abhyāsātby practice — by practice; ramateone enjoys — one enjoys; yatrawhere — where; duḥkhaof distress — of distress; antamthe end — the end; caalso — also; nigacchatigains — gains.
O best of the Bhāratas, 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.
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 Kṛṣṇa consciousness, he is sometimes relieved from such repetitive so-called happiness.