भोगैस्तैरेव तैरेव तुच्छैर्वयममी किल । पश्य जर्जरतां नीता वातैरिव गिरिद्रुमाः ॥ १९ ॥
bhōgaistairēva tairēva tucchairvayamamī kila | paśya jarjaratāṁ nītā vātairiva giridrumāḥ || 19 ||
Translation
See how we have been worn down by those same trifling pleasures, again and again, like trees on a mountain by the winds.
Word by word
- bhōgais
- (bhogaiḥ) by pleasures
- tair
- (taiḥ) those
- ēva
- same
- tucchair
- (tucchaiḥ) trifling
- vayam
- we
- amī
- these
- kila
- indeed
- paśya
- see
- jarjaratāṁ
- worn down
- nītā
- (nītāḥ) have been
- vātair
- (vātaiḥ) by the winds
- iva
- like
- giri
- on a mountain
- drumāḥ
- trees
Meaning
Trees on a mountain top are bent and broken not by one storm but by the steady wind. So the repeated pull of small pleasures wears us down over a lifetime. "Those same" pleasures, again and again: there is nothing new in them, only repetition.