Shloka 55

नारद–शुक संवादः

Impermanence, Svabhāva, and Śuka’s Resolve for Yoga

Devanagari script

यदानुपश्यते5त्यन्तमहन्यहनि काश्यप । तदा स केवलीभूत: षड्विंशमनुपश्यति

Transliteration

yadānupaśyate ’tyantam ahany ahani kāśyapa | tadā sa kevalībhūtaḥ ṣaḍviṁśam anupaśyati ||

Translation

Yājñavalkya said: “O Kāśyapa, when a seeker, day after day, contemplates with utmost intensity the true nature of the Supreme Self, then—becoming ‘alone’ (free from all association with Prakṛti)—he directly realizes the twenty-sixth principle, the Supreme Lord beyond the twenty-five tattvas.”

Word by Word

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

• अनुपश्यते: he/she perceives, contemplates
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनु√पश्
• Form: Lat (present), 3, singular, Atmanepada

• अत्यन्तम्: exceedingly, completely
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: अत्यन्त

• अहनि: in the day
• अहनि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन्
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• अहनि: in the day (day by day)
• अहनि: Adhikarana
• Type: Noun
• Root: अहन्
• Form: neuter, locative, singular

• काश्यप: O Kāśyapa
• Type: Noun
• Root: काश्यप
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

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

• सः: he
• सः: Karta
• Type: Pronoun
• Root: तद्
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• केवलीभूतः: having become isolated/absolute (free from association)
• Type: Adjective
• Root: केवलीभूत
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• षड्विंशम्: the twenty-sixth (principle)
• षड्विंशम्: Karma
• Type: Adjective
• Root: षड्विंश
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular

• अनुपश्यति: he perceives/realizes
• Type: Verb
• Root: अनु√पश्
• Form: Lat (present), 3, singular, Parasmaipada

• कश्यप-नन्दन: O son of Kaśyapa
• Type: Noun
• Root: कश्यपनन्दन
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• याज्ञवल्क्य (Yājñavalkya)
• काश्यप (Kāśyapa)