Text 19] King Yayati Achieves Liberation 73

TRANSLATION

I have spent a full one thousand years enjoying sense gratifica-
tion, yet my desire to enjoy such pleasure increases daily.

PURPORT

Maharaja Yayati is explaining, in terms of his actual experience, how
strong are sexual desires, even in old age.

TEXT 19

AMAA AFA AMPA AAA |
Prasat Preareaenty at: Ae 122

tasmad etam aham tyaktva
brahmany adhydya maénasam

nirdvandvo nirahankaras
carisyami mrgaih saha

tasmat—therefore; etam—such strong desires for lusty affairs;
aham—1; tyaktva—giving up; brahmani—upon the Supreme Absolute
Truth; adhydya—fixing; ménasam—the mind; nirdvandvah—without
duality; nirahankarah—without an identity of false prestige;
carisyami—I shall loiter or wander in the forest; mrgaih 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
