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TEXT 36-37 sukham tv idanim tri-vidham
yat tad agre visam iva
SYNONYMS  sukham--happiness;
tu--but; idanim--now; tri-vidham--three kinds; srnu--hear;
me--from Me; bharata-rsabha--O best amongst the Bharatas;
abhyasat--by practice; ramate--enjoyer; yatra--where;
duhkha--distress; antam--end; ca--also; nigacchati--gains.
yat--that which; tat--that; agre--in the beginning;
visam iva--like poison; pariname--at the end; amrta--nectar;
upamam--compared to; tat--that; sukham--happiness;
sattvikam--in the mode of goodness; proktam--is said; atma--self;
buddhi--intelligence; prasada-jam--satisfactory.
TRANSLATION O best of
the Bharatas, now please hear from Me about the three kinds of happiness
which the conditioned soul enjoys, and by which he sometimes comes to the
end of all distress. That which in the beginning may be just like poison
but at the end is just like nectar and which awakens one to self-realization
is said to be happiness in the mode of goodness.
PURPORT A conditioned
soul tries to enjoy material happiness again and again. Thus he chews the
chewed, but, sometimes, in the course of such enjoyment, he becomes relieved
from material entanglement by association with a great soul. In other words,
a conditioned soul is always engaged in some type of sense gratification,
but when he understands by good association that it is only a repetition
of the same thing, and he is awakened to his real Krsna consciousness,
he is sometimes relieved from such repetitive so-called happiness.
In the pursuit
of self-realization, one has to follow many rules and regulations to control
the mind and the senses and to concentrate the mind on the self. All these
procedures are very difficult, bitter like poison, but if one is successful
in following the regulations and comes to the transcendental position,
he begins to drink real nectar, and he enjoys life.
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