[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Indian literature](https://indike.org/pramana/in) › [Epic, Poetry, Drama & Narrative](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit) › [Gnomic verse and anthologies](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita) › [Shatakatraya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya) › 3.39 # Shatakatraya 3.39 Śatakatraya 3.39 - **Language:** Sanskrit ### [3.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.39) bhogā bhaṅgura-vṛttayo bahuvidhās tair eva cāyaṃ bhavastat kasyeha kṛte paribhramata re lokāḥ kṛtaṃ ceṣṭataiḥ | āśā-pāśa-śatāpaśānti-viśadaṃ cetaḥ-samādhīyatāṃ kāmotpatti-vaśāt svadhāmani yadi śraddeyam asmad-vacaḥ || sakhe dhanyāḥ kecit truṭita-bhava-bandha-vyatikarā vanānte cittāntar-viṣam aviṣayāśīt-viṣa-gatāḥ | śarac-candra-jyotsnādhavala-gaganābhoga-subhagāṃ nayante ye rātriṃ sukṛta-caya-cintaika-śaraṇāḥ || > Sensual pleasures are transient in nature and of many kinds, and from them alone comes this worldly existence; / then for the sake of what, O people, do you wander about here? Enough with these exertions! / Let the mind, purified by the calming of hundreds of snares of longing, be concentrated / in its own abode, beyond the sway of desire's arising, if our words are to be trusted. > Some are blessed, my friend, whose entanglements in the bonds of worldly existence are broken, / who dwell within the forest, their inner hearts free of the blazing poison of sense objects, / who pass the night delightful with the expansive sky brightened by the autumn moonlight, / taking refuge only in contemplation of the mass of their good deeds. > — English (machine translation) (machine translation) - [Previous: 3.38](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.38) - [Next: 3.40](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.40) - [Up: 3](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3) ## Translations (1) - [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.39) — English, machine translation ## Linked texts (2) - [Kāvyasaṅgraha](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.subhasita.kavyasangraha.47.36) — Sanskrit - [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.15.39) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.39](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.39) · Pramāṇa