Shloka 25

Adhyaya 8: Yogasthanas, Ashtanga Yoga, Pranayama-Siddhi, and Shiva-Dhyana leading to Samadhi

Devanagari script

न जातु कामः कामानाम् उपभोगेन शाम्यति हविषा कृष्णवर्त्मेव भूय एवाभिवर्धते

Transliteration

na jātu kāmaḥ kāmānām upabhogena śāmyati haviṣā kṛṣṇavartmeva bhūya evābhivardhate

Translation

感官の対象への欲は、それらを享受することによって決して鎮まらない。供物（havis）を注がれた火のように、いよいよ燃え盛るのみである。

Word by Word

• na: not

• jātu: ever/at any time

• kāmaḥ: desire/craving

• kāmānām: of desired objects/sense-pleasures

• upabhogena: by enjoyment/indulgence

• śāmyati: becomes pacified/is extinguished

• haviṣā: by oblation/clarified butter offering

• kṛṣṇa-vartmā: black-tracked (smoke-marked) fire

• iva: like

• bhūyaḥ: again, further

• eva: indeed

• abhivardhate: increases/grows exceedingly

Speaker

Suta Goswami