Verse 1

Verse 2

Verse 3

Verse 4

Verse 5

Verse 1

O my heart, please throw far away all desires for sense pleasures and impersonal liberation. So-called sense pleasures have no end. They do not bring any real pleasure. They bring only sufferings.

Verse 2

I say that in material sense pleasures the senses become appeased, but aside from that there is no real pleasure. That pleasure is only pacifying an itch. It is a fearful pleasure. The wise do not call this sense-appeasement "pleasure. They call it by the word "suffering".

Verse 3

How many hundreds of fools, hearing the scriptures' descriptions, run after these sense pleasures? Knowing them to be only a trick, a wise Vaiṣṇava renounces them. He strives to attain love for Lord Kṛṣṇa, the most valuable of attainments.

Verse 4

The desire for impersonal liberation is very wicked. It destroys all good thoughts. The desire for impersonal liberation is the most devious of tricks. As long as one does not give up that desire, Māyā will not leave him alone. The impersonalist will struggle mightily, but he will never reach his goal.

Verse 5

Therefore, O my heart, please renounce these two desires. Please do not keep these desires. I do not desire sense pleasures or impersonal liberation. I will attain Śrī Kṛṣṇa's feet. To attain them Bhaktivinoda struggles.