Chapter 2 Overview
Verse 2.44
भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्। व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते।।2.44।।
bhogaiśwvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛita-chetasām vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 2, Verse 44
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by such teachings, their determinate reason is not formed which is steadily bent on meditation and Samadhi (superconscious state).
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: 'their minds are drawn away, their determinate reason is not formed' frames distraction as a structural failure, not a moral one.
In life: struggling to focus often gets treated as a character flaw instead of what it usually is, an environment or habit problem.
Teaching: be kinder to yourself about distraction. Fix the structure around your attention before assuming something is wrong with your character.
bhogagratification
aiśhwaryaluxury
prasaktānāmwhose minds are deeply attached
tayāby that
apahṛita-chetasāmbewildered in intellect
vyavasāya-ātmikāresolute
buddhiḥintellect
samādhaufulfilment
nanever
vidhīyateoccurs
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
2.44 भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानाम् of the people deeply attached to pleasure and lordship? तया by that? अपहृतचेतसाम् whose minds are drawn away? व्यवसायात्मिका determinate? बुद्धिः reason? समाधौ in Samadhi? न not? विधीयते is fixed.Commentary Those who cling to pleasure and power cannot have steadiness of mind. They cannot concentrate or meditate. They are ever busy in planning projects for the acisition of wealth and power. Their minds are ever restless. They have no poised understanding.