Chapter 18 · Liberation Through Renunciation

    Verse 39

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 18, Verse 39

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

    Transliteration (IAST)

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

    Translation

    That pleasure which, at the beginning and end, deludes the self, through sleep, sloth, and error, is declared to be tamasic.
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