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# Shatakatraya 3.62

Śatakatraya 3.62

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [3.62](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya.3.62)

paribhramasi kiṃ mudhā kvacana citta viśrāmyatāṃ  
svayaṃ bhavati yad yathā bhavati tat tathā nānyathā |  
atītam ananusmarann api ca bhāvya-saṅkalpayannatarkita-  
samāgamānubhavāmi bhoganāham ||

> Why wander in vain, O mind? Rest somewhere! / What happens of itself happens as it must; it cannot be otherwise. / Neither remembering the past nor planning for the future, / I experience the sensual pleasures that arrive unforeseen.  
> — English (machine translation) (machine translation)

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## Translations (1)

- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.subhasita.satakatraya~en-mt.3.62) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Rasakalpadruma (Jagannātha Miśra)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.art.alamkara.rasa.rasakalpadruma-jagannathamisra.38.138) — Jagannātha Miśra 1600, Sanskrit
- [Bhartṛhariśataka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.kavya.muktaka.bhartrharisataka.15.62) — Bhartṛhari (grammarian), Sanskrit

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