विदुर उवाच सुखाय कर्माणि करोति लोको न तै: सुखं वान्यदुपारमं वा । विन्देत भूयस्तत एव दु:खं यदत्र युक्तं भगवान् वदेन्न: ॥ २ ॥
vidura uvaca sukhaya karmani karoti loko na taih sukham vanyad-uparamam va vindeta bhuyas tata eva duhkham yad atra yuktam bhagavan vaden nah
- vidurah uvaca
- Vidura said
- sukhaya
- for attaining happiness
- karmani
- fruitive activities
- karoti
- everyone does so
- lokah
- in this world
- na
- never
- taih
- by those activities
- sukham
- any happiness
- va
- or
- anyat
- differently
- uparamam
- satiation
- va
- either
- vindeta
- achieves
- bhuyah
- on the contrary
- tatah
- by such activities
- eva
- certainly
- duhkham
- miseries
- yat
- that which
- atra
- under the circumstances
- yuktam
- right course
- bhagavan
- O great one
- vadet
- may kindly enlighten
- nah
- us
Vidura said: O great sage, everyone in this world engages in fruitive activities to attain happiness, but one finds neither satiation nor the mitigation of distress. On the contrary, one is only aggravated by such activities. Please, therefore, give us directions on how one should live for real happiness.