चिन्तामपरिमेयां च प्रलयान्तामुपाश्रिताः ।कामोपभोगपरमा एतावदिति निश्चिताः॥
cintām aparimeyāṃ ca pralayāntām upāśritāḥkāmopabhoga-paramā etāvad iti niścitāḥ
Word by word
The verse says
They give themselves to worry without measure, worry that ends only when they do, certain that getting what they want is the highest thing and that this is all there is.
In plain words
A line about anxiety, and it is unusually exact.
Aparimeya - without measure, not able to be counted. Not one big worry. An amount of worry that has no edge to it.
And its end date is given plainly. It stops when the person does. That is the most sobering half-line in the chapter.
Where you've felt this · at work
You open your eyes before the alarm and the list is already running. The call you did not make, the thing you said in the meeting, the money going out next week. You get up and deal with all of it, competently, and that evening you lie down and the list starts again with different items on it. Nothing on it was ever the problem. The list regenerates whatever you take off it.
Going deeper
Anxiety is described here as a quantity without a limit, and that is a more precise claim than it sounds.
Aparimeya means immeasurable. Not large - uncountable, having no edge you could reach. The distinction matters. A large worry can be dealt with. A worry without edges cannot, because clearing items does not reduce it. It only changes what it is about.
The cause is given in the same breath. If getting what you want is the highest thing available, then everything you want is load-bearing, and no amount of arranging will make you safe. The worry is not a flaw in the plan. It is what the plan feels like from inside.
So the way out offered by this book is never worry less. It is to take weight off the pile, because what is heavy is not the items. It is the belief that they are all there is.