Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 2, Verse 44
भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम् । व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते
bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānāṃ tayāpahṛtacetasām | vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate
Translation
No conviction of a resolute nature is formed in the mind of those who are attached to pleasures and power, and whose minds are drawn away by that flowery speech which the unwise — enamoured of Vedic utterances, declaring there is nothing else, full of desire, having svarga as their goal — utter, (a speech) which promises birth as the reward of actions and which abounds in specific acts for the attainment of pleasure and power, O son of Pṛthā.
— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri
Word meanings
- bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānām
- in enjoyment, and, in lordship, and, of the attached
- tayā
- by that
- apahṛtacetasām
- dragged away, mind, whose, of them
- vyavasāyātmikā
- determinate
- buddhiḥ
- thought
- samādhau
- in Samādhi
- na
- not
- vidhīyate
- is fixed
Śaṅkarācārya's commentary
(See the bhāṣya on 2.42 — Sastri prints the three verses as a single block.)