आद्यन्तवन्तः कौन्तेय न तेषु रमते बुधः ॥ २२ ॥
ye hi saṃsparśajā bhogā duḥkhayonaya eva te .
ādyantavantaḥ kaunteya na teṣu ramate budhaḥ .. 22 ..
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The pleasures that are caused by contacts of the senses with sense-objects are only generators of pain, since those delights are caused by nescience (avidya). We do find that all troubles arising in the body (adhyatmika). etc., are traceable to them (delights) only. As in this world, so in the other,—as the word ‘only’ indicates. Seeing that there is no trace of joy in the samsara, the devotee should withdraw the senses from the mirage of sense-objects. Not only do the delights cause pain, but also they have a beginning and an end. The contact of a sense with its object marks the beginning of a pleasure, and their separation its end. Delights are temporary, occurring in the moment of interval (between the origin and the end.) A man who possesses discrimination and who has realised the Supeme Reality does not rejoice in them. It is only quite ignorant persons that are, like cattle and the like, found to rejoice in the sense-objects.
The path of Nirvana.
And there is also a wicked thing, an enemy on the path to Bliss, a most difficult thing to deal with, the source of all evil, very difficult to ward off, so that, very mighty efforts should be made, says the Lord, to repel the enemy :