Shloka 17
Adhyaya 43 — Portents of Death (Ariṣṭa-lakṣaṇas) and the Yogin’s Response; Alarka Renounces Kingship
नग्नं क्षपणकं स्वप्ने हसमानाṃ महाबलम् ।
एकं संविक्ष्य वल्गन्तं विद्याद्मृत्युमुपस्थितम् ॥
nagnaṃ kṣapaṇakaṃ svapne hasamānaṃ mahābalam / ekaṃ saṃvīkṣya valgantaṃ vidyānmṛtyumupasthitam
സ്വപ്നത്തിൽ ഒരാൾ നഗ്ന ക്ഷപണകനെ (നഗ്ന തപസ്വിയെ) ചിരിച്ചുകൊണ്ട്—ശക്തനും ഏകാകിയും ആയി—ചാടിക്കളിച്ച് സഞ്ചരിക്കുന്നതായി കണ്ടാൽ, മരണം എത്തിയതായി (സമീപമാണെന്ന്) അറിയണം.
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FAQs
The startling dream-image is meant to break complacency: worldly coverings fall away, and the ‘alone’ condition hints that one meets death individually—therefore cultivate inner readiness.
Ancillary didactic material on nimittas; not a Pancalakṣaṇa classification.
The naked ascetic can symbolize the stripping of ego and social identity at death; laughter and leaping signify the mind’s uncanny, destabilizing encounter with the threshold between embodied order and dissolution.