सुखं त्व् इदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ ॥
अभ्यासाद् रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥
यत् तदग्रे विषम् इव परिणामे ऽमृतोपमम् ॥
तत् सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तम् आत्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम् ॥
विषयेन्द्रियसंयोगाद् यत् तदग्रे ऽमृतोपमम् ॥
परिणामे विषम् इव तत् सुखं राजसं स्मृतम् ॥
यद् अग्रे चानुबन्धे च सुखं मोहनम् आत्मनः ॥
निद्रालस्यप्रमादोत्थं तत् तामसम् उदाहृतम् ॥
न तद् अस्ति पृथिव्यां वा दिवि देवेषु वा पुनः ॥
सत्त्वं प्रकृतिजैर् मुक्तं यद् एभिः स्यात् त्रिभिर् गुणैः ॥
sukhaṃ tv idānīṃ trividhaṃ śṛṇu me bharatarṣabha ||
abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||
yat tadagre viṣam iva pariṇāme 'mṛtopamam ||
tat sukhaṃ sāttvikaṃ proktam ātmabuddhiprasādajam ||
viṣayendriyasaṃyogād yat tadagre 'mṛtopamam ||
pariṇāme viṣam iva tat sukhaṃ rājasaṃ smṛtam ||
yad agre cānubandhe ca sukhaṃ mohanam ātmanaḥ ||
nidrālasyapramādotthaṃ tat tāmasam udāhṛtam ||
na tad asti pṛthivyāṃ vā divi deveṣu vā punaḥ ||
sattvaṃ prakṛtijair muktaṃ yad ebhiḥ syāt tribhir guṇaiḥ ||
"Now hear from Me, O best of the Bharatas, about happiness of three kinds. The happiness in which one takes delight through practice and reaches the end of suffering, which at first is like poison but in the end is like nectar, arises from the clarity of the spiritual intellect and is called sattvic. Happiness that arises from the contact of the senses with their objects, which at first seems like nectar but in the end is like poison, is regarded as rajasic. Happiness that deludes the soul from beginning to end, born of sleep, laziness, and negligence, is declared tamasic. There is no being, neither on earth nor in heaven among the gods, free from these three gunas born of prakriti."
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Happiness reveals the direction of consciousness. Goodness demands discipline and seems difficult at first, yet leads to purity; passion is sweet at the start and bitter at the end; darkness disguises stupor as peace.