# Bhagavad Gita 18.38

**Canonical reference:** `gita.18.38`  
**Speaker:** Krishna  
**Corpus version:** gita-1.0.0-rc.1

## Sanskrit (Devanagari)

विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्।
परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम् ॥

## IAST

viṣayendriyasaṃyogādyattadagre.amṛtopamam
pariṇāme viṣamiva tatsukhaṃ rājasaṃ smṛtam

## English — Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882

which (flows) from contact between the senses and their objects and which is at first comparable to nectar and in the long run like poison. That happiness is described as dark which arises from sleep laziness

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