इदमद्य मया लब्धमिमं प्राप्स्ये मनोरथम्।इदमस्तीदमपि मे भविष्यति पुनर्धनम्॥
idam adya mayā labdham imaṃ prāpsye manorathamidam astīdam api me bhaviṣyati punar dhanam
Word by word
The verse says
This much I have got today. This other thing I will get. This is mine, and that money will be mine as well, before long.
In plain words
Krishna starts quoting. For four verses we hear the voice itself instead of a description of it.
This is the first, and it is just counting. Got, will get, is mine, will be mine.
The tense keeps sliding. Nothing in the sentence stays in the present, because the present is where the counting would have to stop.
Where you've felt this · in sport
A boy who runs wins his first district race and is delighted for about an hour. By the evening he is working out the state meet, and what that would make possible the year after. His father asks him how the race was. He has to think about it, and then he realises he cannot really remember the last two hundred metres.
Going deeper
Hearing the voice instead of being told about it is why these four verses land differently from the rest of the chapter.
The sentence being quoted is not wicked. It is a man doing his accounts. Got this, will get that, this is mine. Nobody reading it can honestly say they have never thought in exactly that shape.
What is wrong with it is not the content but the restlessness. Every clause moves. There is no point in it where something is simply had and the matter is closed. Having keeps getting deferred into a slightly better arrangement that has not happened yet.
So the thing to notice in yourself is not greed, which is easy enough to deny. It is the tense. When you think about your life, how much of it is in the present, and how much is a sentence about what will be true shortly?