उप्यमानं मुहु: क्षेत्रं स्वयं निर्वीर्यतामियात् । न कल्पते पुन: सूत्यै उप्तं बीजं च नश्यति ॥ ३३ ॥ एवं कामाशयं चित्तं कामानामतिसेवया । विरज्येत यथा राजन्नग्निवत् कामबिन्दुभि: ॥ ३४ ॥
upyamanam muhuh ksetram svayam nirviryatam iyat na kalpate punah sutyai uptam bijam ca nasyati evam kamasayam cittam kamanam atisevaya virajyeta yatha rajann agnivat kama-bindubhih
- upyamanam
- being cultivated
- muhuh
- again and again
- ksetram
- a field
- svayam
- itself
- nirviryatam
- barrenness
- iyat
- may obtain
- na kalpate
- is not suitable
- punah
- again
- sutyai
- for growing further harvests
- uptam
- sown
- bijam
- the seed
- ca
- and
- nasyati
- is spoiled
- evam
- in this way
- kama-asayam
- full of lusty desires
- cittam
- the core of the heart
- kamanam
- of the desirable objects
- ati-sevaya
- by enjoyment over and over again
- virajyeta
- may become detached
- yatha
- just as
- rajan
- O King
- agni-vat
- a fire
- kama-bindubhih
- by small drops of clarified butter
My dear King, if an agricultural field is cultivated again and again, the power of its production decreases, and whatever seeds are sown there are lost. Just as drops of ghee on a fire never extinguish the fire but a flood of ghee will, similarly, overindulgence in lusty desires mitigates such desires entirely.