Chapter 18, Verse 37
यत्तदग्रे विषमिव परिणामेऽमृतोपमम्। तत्सुखं सात्त्विकं प्रोक्तमात्मबुद्धिप्रसादजम्।।18.37।।
yattadagre viṣamiva pariṇāme'mṛtopamam. tatsukhaṃ sāttvikaṃ proktamātmabuddhiprasādajam.।18.37।।
Word by word
- yat
- which (happiness)
- tat
- that
- agre
- in the beginning
- viṣam iva
- like poison
- pariṇāme
- in the end / in its result
- amṛta-upamam
- comparable to nectar/ambrosia
- tat
- that
- sukham
- happiness
- sāttvikam
- of the nature of sattva (goodness)
- proktam
- is declared/said (to be)
- ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam
- born from the clarity/purity of one's own intellect
Commentary
3J* That which is like poison at first, at the end, like nectar that pleasure is declared to be Sattvic, born of the purity of one's own mind.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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yat
tat
agre
viṣam iva
pariṇāme
amṛta-upamam
tat
sukham
sāttvikam
proktam
ātma-buddhi-prasāda-jam
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