Bhagavad Gita
    Chapter 5 · Renunciation of Action

    Verse 22

    Sanskrit Text — Chapter 5, Verse 22

    ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते। आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः।।5.22।।

    Transliteration (IAST)

    ye hi sansparśha-jā bhogā duḥkha-yonaya eva te ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣhu ramate budhaḥ

    Translation

    For those pleasures that are born of contact are wombs of pain. They have a beginning and an end, O Arjuna; the wise do not rejoice in them.
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