duḥkha

मात्रास्पर्शास्तु कौन्तेय शीतोष्णसुखदुःखदाः

duḥkha — distress

Contact with the world brings cold and heat, pleasure and pain, son of Kunti. They come and they go; they do not last. Endure them.

यं हि न व्यथयन्त्येते पुरुषं पुरुषर्षभ

duḥkha — distress

The one whom these do not disturb, who is the same in pain and pleasure and steady — that one is fit for what does not die.

अवाच्यवादांश्च बहून् वदिष्यन्ति तवाहिताः

duḥkha-taram — more painful

Your enemies will say many unspeakable things and make little of your strength. What could be more painful than that?

संन्यासस्तु महाबाहो दुःखमाप्तुमयोगतः

duḥkham — distress

But renunciation is hard to reach without yoga, mighty-armed one. The sage joined to yoga comes to Brahman before long.

ये हि संस्पर्शजा भोगा दुःखयोनय एव ते

duḥkha — misery

The pleasures born of contact are wombs of pain. They begin and they end, son of Kunti; the wise do not delight in them.

युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु

duḥkha-hā — the slayer of sorrows

For one moderate in eating and rest, balanced in work, measured in sleep and waking — yoga becomes the slayer of sorrow.

तं विद्याद् दुःखसंयोगवियोगं योगसंज्ञितम्

duḥkha-sanyoga-viyogam — state of severance from union with misery

know that to be yoga: the parting from union with pain. It should be practised with resolve, and without discouragement.

आत्मौपम्येन सर्वत्र समं पश्यति योऽर्जुन

duḥkham — sorrow

One who sees everywhere as they see themselves, Arjuna — in joy or in sorrow alike — that one is held to be the highest practitioner.

मामुपेत्य पुनर्जन्म दुःखालयमशाश्वतम्

duḥkha-ālayam — place full of miseries

Having come to me, the great-souled ones do not return to birth, which is a dwelling of pain and does not last.

बुद्धिर्ज्ञानमसंमोहः क्षमा सत्यं दमः शमः

duḥkham — sorrow

Understanding, knowledge, clarity, patience, truthfulness, restraint of the senses, calm of mind, pleasure and pain, coming to be and ceasing to be, fear and fearlessness,

क्लेशोऽधिकतरस्तेषामव्यक्तासक्तचेतसाम्

duḥkham — exceeding difficulty

The trouble is greater for those whose minds are set on the unmanifest, for the unmanifest is hard to reach.

अद्वेष्टा सर्वभूतानां मैत्रः करुण एव च

duḥkha — distress

Without hatred toward any being, friendly and compassionate, free of “mine” and of “I”, the same in pain and pleasure, patient;

इच्छा द्वेषः सुखं दुःखं सङ्घातश्चेतनाधृतिः

duḥkham — misery

desire, aversion, pleasure, pain, the body as an aggregate, awareness, and steadiness — this, in brief, is the field with its changes.

इन्द्रियार्थेषु वैराग्यमनहङ्कार एव च

duḥkha — evils

dispassion toward the objects of sense, absence of the sense of self, and seeing clearly the trouble in birth, death, old age and sickness;

कर्मणः सुकृतस्याहुः सात्त्विकं निर्मलं फलम्

duḥkham — pain

The fruit of good action is said to be spotless and of the nature of clarity; the fruit of restlessness is pain; and the fruit of inertia is unknowing.

समदुःखसुखः स्वस्थः समलोष्टाश्मकाञ्चनः

duḥkha — distress

the same in pain and pleasure, at home in the self, taking clod, stone and gold alike; the same toward what is wanted and unwanted, steady, the same under blame and praise;

कट्वम्ललवणात्युष्णतीक्ष्णरूक्षविदाहिनः

duḥkha — pain

Foods that are bitter, sour, salty, very hot, sharp, dry and burning are wanted by those of restlessness, and bring pain, grief and sickness.

दुःखमित्येव यत्कर्म कायक्लेशभयात्त्यजेत्

duḥkham — troublesome

One who gives up action because it is troublesome, out of fear of bodily discomfort, has let go in the manner of restlessness, and gains nothing by it.

सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ

duḥkha-antam — end of all suffering

Now hear from me of the three kinds of happiness, best of the Bharatas.