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उन्मादमेके पुष्यन्ति यान्त्यन्ये द्विषतां वशम् । दास्यमेके निगच्छन्ति परेषामर्थहेतुना॥५-७०-२६॥
Some cultivate madness; others fall under the control of adversaries. Some enter servitude, driven by the need for another’s resources.
english translation
आपदेवास्य मरणात्पुरुषस्य गरीयसी । श्रियो विनाशस्तद्ध्यस्य निमित्तं धर्मकामयोः॥५-७०-२७॥
For a person, calamity is heavier than death itself; for the loss of prosperity becomes, for him, a cause for the collapse of both dharma and legitimate desire.
english translation
यदस्य धर्म्यं मरणं शाश्वतं लोकवर्त्म तत् । समन्तात्सर्वभूतानां न तदत्येति कश्चन॥५-७०-२८॥
But death, which is in accordance with dharma and is the perennial path of the world, is not surpassed by anyone—on every side, for all beings.
english translation
न तथा बाध्यते कृष्ण प्रकृत्या निर्धनो जनः । यथा भद्रां श्रियं प्राप्य तया हीनः सुखैधितः॥५-७०-२९॥
O Kṛṣṇa, a person who is poor by circumstance is not afflicted as much as one who, having attained good fortune and been nourished by comforts, is then deprived of it.
english translation
स तदात्मापराधेन संप्राप्तो व्यसनं महत् । सेन्द्रान्गर्हयते देवान्नात्मानं च कथंचन॥५-७०-३०॥
Having fallen into great distress through his own wrongdoing, he censures the gods—even Indra among them—yet in no way censures himself.
english translation