Text 19]
King Yayāti Achieves Liberation
73
TRANSLATION
I have spent a full one thousand years enjoying sense gratification, yet my desire to enjoy such pleasure increases daily.
PURPORT
Mahārāja Yayāti is explaining, in terms of his actual experience, how strong are sexual desires, even in old age.
TEXT 19
तस्मादेतामहं त्यक्त्वा ब्रह्मण्यध्याय मानसम् । निर्द्वन्द्वो निरहंकारश्चरिष्यामि मृगैः सह ॥१९॥
tasmād etām aham tyaktvā brahmaṇy adhyāya mānasam nirdvandvo nirahaṅkāraś cariṣyāmi mṛgaiḥ saha
tasmāt—therefore; etām—such strong desires for lusty affairs; aham—I; tyaktvā—giving up; brahmaṇi—upon the Supreme Absolute Truth; adhyāya—fixing; mānasam—the mind; nirdvandvaḥ—without duality; nirahaṅkāraḥ—without an identity of false prestige; cariṣyāmi—I shall loiter or wander in the forest; mṛgaiḥ saha—with the forest animals.
TRANSLATION
Therefore, I shall now give up all these desires and meditate upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Free from the dualities of mental concoction and free from false prestige, I shall wander in the forest with the animals.
PURPORT
To go to the forest and live there with the animals, meditating upon the Supreme Personality of Godhead, is the only means by which to give up lusty desires. Unless one gives up such desires, one's mind cannot be