सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं श्रृणु मे भरतर्षभ ।अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥
sukhaṃ tvidānīṃ trividhaṃ śrṛṇu me bharatarṣabha |abhyāsādramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati ||
Now hear from me, O best of the Bharatas, about the three kinds of happiness: the kind in which a person comes to delight through long practice, and through which one reaches the end of sorrow…
Explanation
Krishna has just described the three kinds of resolve (dhṛti) according to the three qualities of nature (guṇa). Now he turns to happiness (sukha), which he also divides into three. He begins with the kind that grows through steady practice (abhyāsa) and ends suffering. The sentence continues in the next verse, which identifies this as the sattvic kind.