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Bhagavad Gita 18.36

सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति॥

sukhaṃ tvidānīṃ trividhaṃ śrṛṇu me bharatarṣabha |abhyāsādramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||

And now, O Arjuna, hear from Me of the threefold pleasure, in which one rejoices through practice and surely comes to the end of pain.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

Hear further the three kinds of pleasure. That which increases day by day delivers one from misery.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.

Bhagavad Gita 18.36 · SatsangVidya