Learn·Chapter 2 · The yoga of knowledge·Verse 44 of 72
Bhagavad Gītā 2.44, word by word
BG 2.44
भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम्। व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते
bhogaiśwvarya-prasaktānāṁ tayāpahṛita-chetasām vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate
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In English
While their minds are absorbed with thoughts of power and personal enjoyment, they cannot focus their discrimination on one point.
Translated by Shri Purohit Swami
For those who are attached to pleasure and power, whose minds are drawn away by such teachings, their determinate reason is not formed which is steadily bent on meditation and Samadhi (superconscious state).
Translated by Swami Sivananda
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