karoti -- one performs; karmani -- duties; tapah -- in the practice of austerities; su-nishthitah -- very fixed; nivritta -- avoiding; bhogah -- sense enjoyment; tat -- with that (position which he already has); apekshaya -- in comparison; adadat -- assuming; punah -- further; ca -- and; bhuyasam -- greater; aham -- I; sva-rat -- sovereign ruler; iti -- thus thinking; pravriddha -- rampant; tarshah -- whose urges; na -- not; sukhaya -- happiness; kalpate -- can attain.

A king who desires even greater power than he already has strictly performs his duties, carefully practicing austerity and forgoing sense enjoyment. But he whose urges are so rampant, thinking "I am independent and supreme," cannot attain happiness.