Verse-14
Chapter 2 — Sānkhya Yog
Verse 14
🕉 Original Sanskrit Shloka
mātrāsparśāstu kaunteya śītoṣṇasukhaduḥkhadāḥ
āgamāpāyino'nityāstāṁstitikṣasva bhārata
🕉 English Translation
📜 Translation
English
O son of Kunti the contact of sense organs with the objects gives rise to heat and cold. Pleasure and pain have a beginning and an end and are impermanent. Therefore, O Bharat! learn to endure them.
When any circumstance or object, living being or matter of the world is not permanent then how can the relationship arising out of contact with them be permanent? The sense objects are impermanent and the mental propensity transacting with the objects are also impermanent. Then the pleasure originating from these objects will also be impermanent. Any circumstance or object, living being or matter of the world is ever changing. Observe the body itself! So many changes and deformations are found in it! This body undergoes transformations of several states. The world through which we want to establish the relationship of Me and Mine with the world and want to remain happy, this is ever changing. That which is transient, changeable, that is sans happiness, meaning it is sorrowful–'anityam asukham' (6. 33) and 'dukhalayam ashashvatam' (8. 15)–essential indications of the Gita are worthy of consideration.