Shloka 6

Devanagari script

यावद्धि प्रलयस्तात सूक्ष्मेणाष्टगुणेन ह । योगेन लोकान्‌ विचरन्‌ सुखं संन्यस्य चानघ

Transliteration

yāvad dhi pralayas tāta sūkṣmeṇāṣṭaguṇena ha | yogena lokān vicaran sukhaṃ saṃnyasya cānagha ||

Translation

Яджнявалкья сказал: «Милый, безгрешный, пока не наступит время пралая (смерти), йогин, оставив здесь грубое тело, силой йоги с радостью странствует по различным мирам в тонком теле, наделённом восьмеричным совершенством. Смысл таков: дисциплинированное отречение и йогическое мастерство освобождают от обычных телесных ограничений, но эта свобода всё же ограничена космическим пределом пралая; потому следует искать йогу в чистоте и непривязанности, а не ради одного лишь изумления чудесным странствием.»

Word by Word

• यावत्: as long as / until
• यावत्: Adhikarana
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: यावत्
• Form: correlative adverb (yāvat ... tāvat)

• हि: indeed / for
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: हि
• Form: particle

• प्रलयः: dissolution; end; death
• प्रलयः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: प्रलय
• Form: masculine, nominative, singular

• तात: dear one / son (address)
• Type: Noun
• Root: तात
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• सूक्ष्मेण: by/with the subtle (body/means)
• सूक्ष्मेण: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: सूक्ष्म
• Form: neuter (or masculine), instrumental, singular

• अष्टगुणेन: by/with the eightfold qualities/powers
• अष्टगुणेन: Karana
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अष्टगुण
• Form: neuter (or masculine), instrumental, singular

• ह: indeed (emphatic)
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: ह
• Form: particle

• योगेन: by yoga / through yogic power
• योगेन: Karana
• Type: Noun
• Root: योग
• Form: masculine, instrumental, singular

• लोकान्: worlds
• लोकान्: Karma
• Type: Noun
• Root: लोक
• Form: masculine, accusative, plural

• विचरन्: wandering; moving about
• विचरन्: Karta
• Type: Verb
• Root: वि-चर्
• Form: present active participle, masculine nominative singular

• सुखम्: comfortably; happily
• Type: Noun
• Root: सुख
• Form: neuter, accusative, singular (adverbial use)

• संन्यस्य: having renounced/abandoned
• Type: Verb
• Root: सम्-नि-√अस् (संन्यास)
• Form: absolutive (gerund), parasmaipada sense

• च: and
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: च
• Form: conjunction

• अनघ: O sinless one
• Type: Adjective
• Root: अनघ
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• प्रिय: O dear one
• Type: Adjective
• Root: प्रिय
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• निष्पाप: O guiltless one
• Type: Adjective
• Root: निष्पाप
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

• भूपाल: O king (protector of the earth)
• Type: Noun
• Root: भूपाल
• Form: masculine, vocative, singular

Speaker

याज़्ञवल्क्य उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Yājñavalkya
• loka (various worlds/realms)
• sūkṣma-śarīra (subtle body)
• sthūla-śarīra (gross body)
• aṣṭa-guṇa/aṣṭa-siddhi (eightfold power/excellence)
• pralaya (dissolution/death)

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

Through yoga and renunciation, a yogin can function apart from the gross body and experience mobility in a subtle body endowed with extraordinary capacities; yet such powers remain within the limits of time and dissolution (pralaya). The ethical emphasis is detachment and purity, not fascination with power.

What is happening in the narrative?

Yājñavalkya is explaining to his addressee the yogic condition in which the practitioner, leaving the gross body behind, roams among different worlds by yogic force in a subtle, eightfold-endowed form, continuing so until the destined end (pralaya/death).