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
THATS AFA ATTA AAT |
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Prorat fréaraftonty at: az eal
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
