Chapter 5 Verse 22 of 29

• ye hi saḿsparśa-jā bhogā
• duḥkha-yonaya eva te
• ādy-antavantaḥ kaunteya
• na teṣu ramate budhaḥ

Translation

An intelligent person does not take part in the sources of misery, which are due to contact with the material senses. O son of Kuntī, such pleasures have a beginning and an end, and so the wise man does not delight in them.

Synonyms

• ye

  those

• hi

  certainly

• jāḥ

  by contact with the material senses

• bhogāḥ

  enjoyments

• duḥkha

  distress

• yonayaḥ

  sources of

• eva

  certainly

• te

  they are

• ādi

  beginning

• anta

  end

• vantaḥ

  subject to

• kaunteya

  O son of Kunti

• na

  never

• teṣu

  in those

• ramate

  takes delight

• budhaḥ

  the intelligent person.

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