Sanskrit
सुखं त्विदानीं त्रिविधं शृणु मे भरतर्षभ । अभ्यासाद्रमते यत्र दुःखान्तं च निगच्छति ॥ ३६ ॥
sukhaṃ tv idānīṃ trividhaṃ śṛṇu me bharatarṣabha abhyāsād ramate yatra duḥkhāntaṃ ca nigacchati
Translation
And now the threefold kinds of pleasure hear thou from Me, O bull of the Bharatas. That in which one by practice rejoiceth, and which putteth an end to pain;
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The final triad, happiness, opens with a promise: sattvic pleasure is the kind one comes to enjoy only through sustained practice (abhyasa), and that eventually ends suffering — an investment structure, not an instant payoff. This directly parallels chapter 14’s account of the sattva-guna destiny, rising toward the pure worlds of the knowers, as something cultivated over time rather than granted on demand.