Shloka 3
Adhyaya 38 — Dattatreya on Non-Identification (Mamata) and the Path to Liberation
यस्मिन् यस्मिन्ममासक्ता बुद्धिः पुंसः प्रजायते ।
ततस्ततः समादाय दुःखान्येव प्रयच्छति ॥
yasmin yasmin mamāsaktā buddhiḥ puṃsaḥ prajāyate |
tatastataḥ samādāya duḥkhānyeva prayacchati ||
أيًّا كان الشيء الذي تتعلّق به نفس الإنسان بشعور «لي»، فمن ذلك المصدر بعينه لا يجتني ولا يورث إلا الأحزان.
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FAQs
The verse gives a diagnostic rule: wherever ‘mine’ arises, vulnerability to loss, fear, and grief follows. Ethical practice is to reduce possessiveness rather than merely rotate possessions.
Didactic dharma/jñāna material within vaṃśānucarita-style narration; not a cosmological register.
‘Mine-ness’ is an extension of ‘I’-sense; it is the subtle mechanism by which the Self is superimposed onto non-self, producing bondage.