Chapter 19
तथाहं कृपण: सुभ्रु भवत्या: प्रेमयन्त्रित: । आत्मानं नाभिजानामि मोहितस्तव मायया ॥ १२ ॥
Transliteration
tathāhaṁ kṛpaṇaḥ subhru bhavatyāḥ prema-yantritaḥ ātmānaṁ nābhijānāmi mohitas tava māyayā
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
tathā — exactly like the he-goat; aham — I; kṛpaṇaḥ — a miser with no sense of the importance of life; su-bhru — O my wife, with beautiful eyebrows; bhavatyāḥ — in your company; prema-yantritaḥ — as if tied in love, although it is actually lust; ātmānam — self-realization (what I am and what my duty is); na abhijānāmi — I could not realize even until now; mohitaḥ — being bewildered; tava — your; māyayā — by the materially attractive feature.
Translation
“O my dear wife with beautiful eyebrows, I am exactly like that he-goat, for I am so poor in intelligence that I am captivated by your beauty and have forgotten the real task of self-realization.”