Verse 18.36

Verse 18.36: “And now the three-fold (types of) pleasure hear, from Me, Oh Bull of the Bharata (clan). Wherein one finds Joy (only) through practice, and (wherein one) fully attains the end of (all) grief: (772)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

Then (God) said, “Now hear, Oh you righteous one, about the signs of the three-fold pleasure, which I promised I Would preach. I shall show to your vision that pleasure which the being, Oh Kiriti, derives from the meeting with the soul. Just a potent (divine) medicine has to be administered in very small doses like Matra (mātrā—a concentrated drug prepared by chemical process); or tin is converted into silver by alchemy (lit. by treating it with mercury); or in order to dissolve salt, water is profusely poured over it several (2-4) times; in that way the miseries of life (mundane existence), come to an end, when one (first) experiences a little (spiritual) pleasure and then pursues its practice repeatedly with all one’s heart. And that ending of miseries is the pleasure of the ‘Self’ here.' And this (generic pleasure) too is three-fold as constituted by the three Guna-constituents, and I tell you separately the signs of each of these types.