चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः ।कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः ॥
cintām aparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntām upāśritāḥ |kāmopabhogaparamā etāvad iti niścitāḥ ||
- चिन्ताम् · cintām
- anxiety, care
- अपरिमेयाम् · aparimeyām
- boundless
- प्रलयान्ताम् · pralayāntām
- ending only with death
- उपाश्रिताः · upāśritāḥ
- given to, possessed by
- कामोपभोगपरमाः · kāmopabhogaparamāḥ
- holding sense-indulgence as highest
- एतावत् · etāvat
- this much, this is all
- निश्चिताः · niścitāḥ
- convinced, resolved
“Gripped by boundless anxieties that end only with death, holding indulgence as life's highest aim, convinced that this is all there is…”
— Original plain-language translation
The psychology is exact: infinite worry yoked to finite meaning. When pleasure is the ceiling, anxiety is the climate — wanting without end, fearing every loss. The sentence spills into the next verse, one long gasp of grasping.
— Reader's notes (original)