भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानां तयापहृतचेतसाम् ।व्यवसायात्मिका बुद्धिः समाधौ न विधीयते ॥
bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānāṃ tayāpahṛtacetasām |vyavasāyātmikā buddhiḥ samādhau na vidhīyate ||
- भोगैश्वर्यप्रसक्तानाम् · bhogaiśvaryaprasaktānām
- of those attached to enjoyment and power
- तया · tayā
- by that (flowery speech)
- अपहृतचेतसाम् · apahṛtacetasām
- whose minds are carried away
- व्यवसायात्मिका · vyavasāyātmikā
- resolute
- बुद्धिः · buddhiḥ
- understanding
- समाधौ · samādhau
- in concentration, in stillness
- न · na
- not
- विधीयते · vidhīyate
- is formed, established
“For those attached to enjoyment and power, whose minds are carried away by such speech — no resolute understanding takes root in stillness.”
— Original plain-language translation
The verdict on the distracted life: a mind auctioned to pleasures cannot settle into samādhi. Note the causality — it is not stillness that is withheld, but resolve that never forms. The scattered reap scattering.
— Reader's notes (original)