Chapter XVIII · Śloka 36
सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ |
अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ||
अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ||
sukhaṃ tv idānīṃ tri-vidhaṃ śṛṇu me bharatarṣabha |
abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||
abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||
Now hear from Me, O best of the Bharatas, the threefold happiness — that in which one rejoices through practice, and in which one reaches the end of suffering.
Krishna turns to the three-fold nature of happiness itself, offering a criterion that cuts through confusion: the happiness that ends suffering is not the same as the happiness that merely postpones it. Practice reveals the difference.