Sanskrit · Devanagari
विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद्यत्तदग्रेऽमृतोपमम्। परिणामे विषमिव तत्सुखं राजसं स्मृतम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
viṣayendriyasaṃyogādyattadagre.amṛtopamam pariṇāme viṣamiva tatsukhaṃ rājasaṃ smṛtam
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882which (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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Śaṅkarācārya
।।18.38।। --,विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगात् जायते यत् सुखम् तत् सुखम् अग्रे प्रथमक्षणे अमृतोपमम् अमृतसमम्? परिणामे विषमिव? बलवीर्यरूपप्रज्ञामेधाधनोत्साहहानिहेतुत्वात् अधर्मतज्जनितनरकादिहेतुत्वाच्च परिणामे तदुपभोगपरिणामान्ते विषमिव? तत् सुखं राजसं स्मृतम्।।
d7a75c731830…Rāmānuja
18.38 That which at the 'beginning,' i.e., at the time of experience looks like elixir because of the contact of senses with their objects agreable to them, but 'at the end,' i.e., when satiation or further incapacity to enjoy due to over-indulgence in them occurs, looks life poison - that pleasure is said to be Rajasika. In this latter state these so-called enjoyments cause the misery of Naraka.
0af3d949cc8e…Swami Sivananda
18.38 विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगात् from the contact of the senseorgans with the objects? यत् which? तत् that? अग्रे at first? अमृतोपमम् like nectar? परिणामे in the end? विषम् poison? इव like? तत् that? सुखम् pleasure? राजसम् Rajasic? स्मृतम् is declared.Commentary Sensual pleasure is mixed with pain? fear and sin. A small grain of sensual pleasure is mixed with a mountain of pain. He who indulges in sensual pleasures will have to experience pain also? side by side. He is afraid of losing the objects that give him pleasure. He is attached to them. Attachment is death. It brings him again and again to this world of death. Fear and attachment coexist with sensual pleasure. He has to exert a lot to get money. He can obtain the objects through money. During exertion he commits many sinful acts and he will have to suffer in hell. The next birth will be of a very low nature. He tells lies and cheats people to obtain money. The senses also lose their vigour through indulgence in sensual pleasure. He loses his strength? vigour? wealth and energy. His intellect becomes dull? weak? impure? turbid and perverted. He loses his money and proper understanding. (Cf.V.22)
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