Shloka 231

ध्यानयोगवर्णनम्

Description of the Path of Meditation

Devanagari script

यदा न रूप॑ न स्पर्शो नोष्मभावश्नल पञज्चके । तदा शान्ते शरीराग्नौ देहत्यागे न नश्यति

Transliteration

yadā na rūpaṃ na sparśo noṣmabhāvaś ca pañcake | tadā śānte śarīrāgnau dehatyāge na naśyati ||

Translation

Bharadvāja said: “When, within the fivefold complex of bodily experience, there is no longer form, no touch, and no heat, then—once the body’s fire has become quiet—at the moment of casting off the body, the self does not perish. The teaching underscores that death is a change of condition for the body and its sensations, not the destruction of the enduring principle that witnesses them.”

Word by Word

• यदा: when
• यदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यदा

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• रूपम्: form
• रूपम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रूप
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• न: nor
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• स्पर्शः: touch
• स्पर्शः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: स्पर्श
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न: nor
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• उष्मभावः: state of heat (warmth)
• उष्मभावः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: उष्मभाव
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• न: nor
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• लिङ्गम्: mark/sign (subtle body/indicator)
• लिङ्गम्: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: लिङ्ग
• Form: Neuter, Nominative, Singular

• पञ्चके: in the group of five
• पञ्चके: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: पञ्चक
• Form: Neuter, Locative, Singular

• तदा: then
• तदा: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: तदा

• शान्ते: when (it is) pacified/quenched
• शान्ते: Adhikarana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: शान्त
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• शरीराग्नौ: in the bodily fire
• शरीराग्नौ: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: शरीराग्नि
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• देहत्यागे: at the abandonment of the body
• देहत्यागे: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: देहत्याग
• Form: Masculine, Locative, Singular

• न: not
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: न

• नश्यति: perishes/is destroyed
• Type: Verb
• Root: नश्
• Form: Present (Lat), Third, Singular, Parasmaipada

Speaker

भरद्वाज उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Bharadvāja