Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 1, Verse 32
न काङ्क्षे विजयं कृष्ण न च राज्यं सुखानि च । किं नो राज्येन गोविन्द किं भोगैर्जीवितेन वा
na kāṅkṣe vijayaṃ kṛṣṇa na ca rājyaṃ sukhāni ca | kiṃ no rājyena govinda kiṃ bhogairjīvitena vā
Translation
I desire not victory, O Kṛṣṇa, nor kingdom, nor pleasures. Of what avail is dominion to us, O Govinda? Of what avail are pleasures and even life?
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- na
- not
- kāṅkṣe
- (I) desire
- vijayam
- victory
- kṛṣṇa
- O Kṛṣṇa
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- rājyam
- kingdom
- sukhāni
- pleasures
- ca
- and
- kim
- what
- naḥ
- to us
- rājyena
- by (or with) kingdom
- govinda
- O Govinda
- kim
- what
- bhogaiḥ
- by (or with) pleasures
- jīvitena
- by (or with) life
- vā
- or