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Bhagavad Gita / Chapter 18 / Verse 37
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Bhagavad Gita 18.37

Sanskrit
Hindi
Sanskrit

यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम् | तत्सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्

Transliteration

yattadagre viṣamiva pariṇāme.amṛtopamam . tatsukhaṃ sāttvikaṃ proktamātmabuddhiprasādajam

English

That which is like poison in the beginning, but comparable to nectar in the end, and which, arises from the purity of one's intellect-that joy is spoken of as born of sattva.

हिन्दी

जो सुख प्रथम (प्रारम्भ में) विष के समान (भासता) है, परन्तु परिणाम में अमृत के समान है, वह आत्मबुद्धि के प्रसाद से उत्पन्न सुख सात्त्विक कहा गया है।।

Explanation — English

Agree vishma iva In the beginning it is attended with much pain as one has to abandon the sensual objects and comforts and practise severe austerities and rigorous Sadhana. He has to undergo a severe ordeal when he practises Yama? Niyama? Tapas and various other vows. He has to cultivate dispassion or indifference to sensual pleasures. This gives him much pain at first. The practice of concentration and meditation also gives pain the beginning. Subjugation of the senses is also very troublesome. Nux vomica is very bitter. One feels much discomfort when he takes a mixture that contains nux vomica. But he derives much pleasure in the end when he gets vigour and good appetite and when his dyspepsia is cured. Even so the aspirant drinks the nectar of immortality in the end? attains the highest knowledge? rejoices in the,Self to his hearts content and enjoys supreme peace and eternal bliss.Proktam It is declared by the wise.Atmabuddhiprasadajam Born as purity of ones own intellect or born of the direct? perfect and clear knowledge of Brahman or the immortal? selfluminous? eternal and supreme Self or the Absolute. The individual self experiences Sattvic happiness when it realises union with the highest Self.The pleasure so born is Sattvic. (Cf.VI.1?2)

Explanation — हिन्दी

जो प्रथम विष के समान है यहाँ ध्यान देने योग्य बात यह है कि वास्तव में सात्त्विक सुख कभी विष के समान नहीं होता है? परन्तु मनुष्य की स्वाभाविक प्रवृत्ति बहिर्मुखी होने के कारण उसे ज्ञान? वैराग्य? ध्यान आदि सात्त्विक सुख के साधनों का अभ्यास करने में कठिनाई अनुभव होती है। इसलिए ऐसे दुर्बल व्यक्ति को यह सात्त्विक सुख प्रारम्भ में विष के समान दुखदायी प्रतीत होता है? किन्तु यह वास्तविकता नहीं है। उदाहरणार्थ बालकों को खेलकूद में आसक्ति होने के कारण पाठशाला का अध्ययन दुखदायी प्रतीत होता है।परिणाम में अमृत के समान है परिणाम में अर्थात् जब ज्ञान? वैराग्य आदि साधनाभ्यास में परिपक्वता आने पर वास्तविक मनशान्ति का अनुभव होता है तब वह अमृत के समान आनन्दायक होता है। यह सुख सात्त्विक कहा गया है।आत्म बुद्धि के प्रसाद से उत्पन्न प्राय लोग प्रसाद का अर्थ कर्मकाण्डीय पूजा की सम्पन्नता होने पर वितरित किया जाने वाला भोज्य प्रसाद ही समझते हैं। परन्तु यहाँ प्रसाद का अर्थ व्यापक और गम्भीर है।आत्मानुसंधान के द्वारा आत्मस्वरूप में समाहित बुद्धि आत्म बुद्धि कहलाती है। उस बुद्धि के प्रसाद का अर्थ है? प्रसन्नता? निर्मलता। बुद्धि के शान्त? शुद्ध और स्थिर होने पर? जो सुख की अनुभूति होती है? वही आत्मबुद्धि प्रसादज सात्त्विक सुख है। ऐसा सर्वश्रेष्ठ सुख केवल सुशिक्षित? सुसंस्कृत और सात्त्विक पुरुषों को ही प्राप्त होता है।

Sanskrit
English
यत्
which
तत्
that
अग्रे
at first
विषम्
poison
इव
like
परिणामे
in the end
अमृतोपमम्
like nectar
तत्
that
सुखम्
pleasure
सात्त्विकम्
Sattvic
प्रोक्तम्
is declared (to be)
आत्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्
born of the purity of ones own mind due to Selfrealisation.
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18.1Arjuna said O mighty-armed Hrsikesa, O slayer of (the demon) Kesi, I want to know serverally the truth about sannyasa as also about tyaga.18.2The Blessed Lord said The learned ones know sannyasa to be the giving up of actions done with a desire for reward. The adepts call the abandonment of the results of all works as tyaga.18.3Some learned persons say that action, beset with evil (as it is), should be given up, and others (say) that the practice of sacrifice, charity and austertiy should not be given up.18.4O the most excellent among the descendants of Bharata, hear from Me the firm conclusion regarding that tyaga. For, O greatest among men, tyaga has been clearly declared to be of three kinds.18.5The practice of sacrifice, charity and austerity is not to be abandoned; it is surely to be undertaken. Sacrifice, charity and austerity are verily the purifiers of the wise.18.6But even these actions have to be undertaken by renouncing attachment and (hankering for) results. This is My firm and best conclusion, O Parhta.18.7The abandoning of daily obligatory acts (nityakamas) is not justifiable. Giving up that through delusion is declared to be based on tamas.18.8Whatever action one may relinish merely as being painful, from fear of physical suffering, he, having resorted to renunciation based on rajas, will surely not acire the fruits of renunciation.18.9Whatever obligatory duty is performed just because it is a bounden duty, O Arjuna, by giving up attachment and the result as well,-that renunciation is considered to be based on sattva.18.10The man of renunciation who has become imbued with sattva, who is wise and freed from doubts, does not hate unbefitting action, nor does he become attached to befitting activity.