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सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति।।18.36।।

sukhaṁ tv idānīṁ tri-vidhaṁ śhṛiṇu me bharatarṣhabha abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṁ cha nigachchhati yat tad agre viṣham iva pariṇāme ‘mṛitopamam tat sukhaṁ sāttvikaṁ proktam ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 18, Verse 36
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
And now, O Arjuna, hear from Me of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices through practice and surely comes to the end of pain.

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Why: Arjuna asks now to hear about the three kinds of happiness, in which a person delights through practice, and reaches the end of sorrow, requesting the same framework's final application, this time to happiness itself.

In life: even happiness, something that feels purely subjective and simple, turns out to have the same kind of structure and variation this whole chapter has been applying to everything else, worth examining with the same care rather than assuming all happiness is basically the same.

Teaching: apply this same discerning attention to your own experiences of happiness, not assuming they're all basically the same quality just because they all feel pleasant in the moment, that discrimination is itself a genuinely useful skill.

sukhamhappiness
tubut
idānīmnow
tri-vidhamof three kinds
śhṛiṇuhear
mefrom me
bharata-ṛiṣhabhaArjun, the best of the Bharatas
abhyāsātby practice
ramaterejoices
yatrain which
duḥkha-antamend of all suffering
chaand
nigachchhatireaches yat - which
tatthat
agreat first
viṣham ivalike poison
pariṇāmein the end
amṛita-upamamlike nectar
tatthat
sukhamhappiness
sāttvikamin the mode of goodness
proktamis said to be
ātma-buddhisituated in self-knowledge
prasāda-jamgenerated by the pure intellect

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
18.36 सुखम् pleasure? तु indeed? इदानीम् now? त्रिविधम् threefold? श्रृणु hear? मे of Me? भरतर्षभ O lord of the Bharatas? अभ्यासात् from practice? रमते rejoices? यत्र in which? दुःखान्तम् the end of pain? च and? निगच्छति (he) attains to.Commentary A little of this pleasure experienced by the Self must result in the cessation of pain. This pleasure is threefold in its nature and I will describe its aspects in turn? O Arjuna. (Cf.VI.20?30).