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यदग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनमात्मनः।निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत्तामसमुदाहृतम्।।18.39।।

yad agre chānubandhe cha sukhaṁ mohanam ātmanaḥ nidrālasya-pramādotthaṁ tat tāmasam udāhṛitam

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 18, Verse 39
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
That happiness which at first, as well as in the end, deludes the self, and which arises from sleep, indolence, and heedlessness - that is declared to be Tamasic.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: that happiness which deludes the self both at the beginning and at the end, arising from sleep, laziness, and negligence, is said to be of ignorance, describing the dullest kind of happiness, one that's actually confusing or harmful throughout, not just at one end or the other.

In life: some habits marketed to you as relaxing or pleasurable, excessive avoidance, numbing distraction, actually produce a kind of confused, low-grade dissatisfaction the entire time, not real happiness at either end of the experience.

Teaching: honestly examine whether a habit you've been treating as relaxation is actually producing this dull, confused quality throughout the experience rather than genuine satisfaction, that distinction matters for deciding whether to keep relying on it.

yatwhich
agrefrom beginning
chaand
anubandheto end
chaand
sukhamhappiness
mohanamillusory
ātmanaḥof the self
nidrāsleep
ālasyaindolence
pramādanegligence
utthamderived from
tatthat
tāmasamin the mode of ignorance
udāhṛitamis said to be

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
18.39 यत् which? अग्रे at first? च and? अनुबन्धे in the seel? च and? सुखम् pleasure? मोहनम् delusive? आत्मनः of the self? निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थम् arising from sleep? indolence and heedlessness? तत् that? तामसम् Tamasic? उदाहृतम् is declared.Commentary Anubandhe In the conseence after the termination. The pleasure that is begotten by evil habits like drinking liors and eating worthless things is delusive of the self. The man becomes oblivious of the path he ought to tread. Such pleasure is verily of the nature of darkness.