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Shloka 6

Yājñavalkya on the Unity of Sāṃkhya and Yoga and the Marks of Meditative Composure

षोडशी तु कला सूक्ष्मा स सोम उपधार्यताम्‌ | न तूपयुज्यते देवै्देवानुपयुनक्ति सा,अमा नामक जो सोलहवीं सूक्ष्म कला है, वही सोम है अर्थात्‌ जीवकी प्रकृति है, यह तुम निश्चितरूपसे जान लो। देवतालोग अर्थात्‌ अन्तःकरण और इन्द्रियगण जिनको पंद्रह कलाओंके नामसे कहा गया, वे उस सोलहवीं कलाका उपयोग नहीं कर सकते; किंतु वे सोलहवीं कला अर्थात्‌ उन सबकी कारणभूता प्रकृति ही उनका उपयोग करती है

ṣoḍaśī tu kalā sūkṣmā sa soma upadhāryatām | na tūpayujyate devair devān upayuṅkti sā ||

Vasiṣṭha said: The sixteenth, exceedingly subtle kalā is to be firmly understood as Soma itself—i.e., the living being’s own primal nature. The “gods”—meaning the inner faculties and the senses, spoken of as the fifteen kalās—cannot make use of that sixteenth principle; rather, that sixteenth kalā, the causal Nature underlying them all, is what employs and directs them.

ṣoḍaśīsixteenth
ṣoḍaśī:
Karta
TypeAdjective
Rootṣoḍaśī
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
tubut/indeed
tu:
TypeIndeclinable
Roottu
kalāpart, digit, portion (kalā)
kalā:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootkalā
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
sūkṣmāsubtle
sūkṣmā:
TypeAdjective
Rootsūkṣma
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
that (she/it)
:
Karta
TypePronoun
Roottad
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular
somaḥSoma (moon/nectar principle)
somaḥ:
Karta
TypeNoun
Rootsoma
FormMasculine, Nominative, Singular
upadhāryatāmlet it be understood/accepted
upadhāryatām:
TypeVerb
Rootupa-√dhṛ
FormImperative (loṭ), Third, Singular, Ātmanepada (passive/impersonal sense)
nanot
na:
TypeIndeclinable
Rootna
tuhowever
tu:
TypeIndeclinable
Roottu
upayujyateis employed/used
upayujyate:
TypeVerb
Rootupa-√yuj
FormPresent (laṭ), Third, Singular, Ātmanepada (passive sense)
devaiḥby the gods
devaiḥ:
Karana
TypeNoun
Rootdeva
FormMasculine, Instrumental, Plural
devānthe gods
devān:
Karma
TypeNoun
Rootdeva
FormMasculine, Accusative, Plural
upayuṅkteemploys/uses
upayuṅkte:
TypeVerb
Rootupa-√yuj
FormPresent (laṭ), Third, Singular, Ātmanepada
that (she/it)
:
Karta
TypePronoun
Roottad
FormFeminine, Nominative, Singular

वसिष्ठ उवाच

V
Vasiṣṭha
S
Soma
D
devas (as inner faculties and senses)