Verse 18.36
सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ ।
अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥
Transliteration
sukhaṃ tvidānīṃ trividhaṃ śaṛṇu me bharatarṣabha |
abhyāsādramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
And now hear from Me, O Arjuna, of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices by practice and surely comes to the end of pain.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
Now hear from me, bull of the Bharatas, about the three kinds of happiness: that in which one delights through practice and in which one reaches the end of sorrow,
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
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By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna now addresses happiness (sukha), the last of the qualities he analyses in this series. He begins to describe the kind of happiness one comes to enjoy through practice and in which one finds the end of sorrow. The sentence continues into the next verse. The mention of practice is important: higher happiness is not stumbled upon but cultivated over time. It also responds to the human longing that runs beneath every action, the wish to be free from pain.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08