त्वं वै समस्तपुरुषार्थमय: फलात्मा यद्वाञ्छया सुमतयो विसृजन्ति कृत्स्नम् । तेषां विभो समुचितो भवत: समाज: पुंस: स्त्रियाश्च रतयो: सुखदु:खिनोर्न ॥ ३८ ॥
tvaṁ vai samasta-puruṣārtha-mayaḥ phalātmā yad-vāñchayā su-matayo visṛjanti kṛtsnam teṣāṁ vibho samucito bhavataḥ samājaḥ puṁsaḥ striyāś ca ratayoḥ sukha-duḥkhinor na
- tvam
- You
- vai
- indeed
- samasta
- all
- puruṣa
- of human life
- artha
- of the goals
- mayaḥ
- comprising
- phala
- of the ultimate goal
- ātmā
- the very Self
- yat
- for whom
- vāñchayā
- out of desire
- su-matayaḥ
- intelligent persons
- visṛjanti
- discard
- kṛtsnam
- everything
- teṣām
- for them
- vibho
- O omnipotent one
- samucitaḥ
- appropriate
- bhavataḥ
- Your
- samājaḥ
- association
- puṁsaḥ
- of a man
- striyāḥ
- and a women
- ca
- and
- ratayoḥ
- who are attracted to each other in mutual lust
- sukha-duḥkhinoḥ
- who experience material happiness and distress
- na
- not
You are the embodiment of all human goals and are Yourself the final aim of life. Desiring to attain You, O all-powerful Lord, intelligent persons abandon everything else. It is they who are worthy of Your association, not men and women absorbed in the pleasure and grief resulting from their mutual lust.