यच्च कामसुखं लोके यच्च दिव्यं महत्सुखम् ।
तृण्षाक्षयसुखस्यैते नार्हतः षोडशीं कलाम् ॥
yac ca kāma-sukhaṁ loke yac ca divyaṁ mahat sukham |
tṛṇṣā-kṣaya-sukhasyaite nārhataḥ ṣoḍaśīṁ kalām ||
(Mahābhārata: 12.168.36)
“The happiness produced by objects of desire in this world, and the great happiness in Svarga—these are not equal to [even] a sixteenth of the happiness of the cessation of desire.”