Shloka 24

यतिप्रायश्चित्तविधानम्

Ascetic Atonements and Discipline

Devanagari script

चरेद्धि शुद्धः समलोष्टकाञ्चनः समस्तभूतेषु च सत्समाहितः स्थानं ध्रुवं शाश्वतमव्ययं तु परं हि गत्वा न पुनर्हि जायते

Transliteration

careddhi śuddhaḥ samaloṣṭakāñcanaḥ samastabhūteṣu ca satsamāhitaḥ sthānaṃ dhruvaṃ śāśvatamavyayaṃ tu paraṃ hi gatvā na punarhi jāyate

Translation

चरेद् हि शुद्धः समलोष्टकाञ्चनः समस्तभूतेषु च सत्समाहितः। स्थानं ध्रुवं शाश्वतमव्ययं तु परं हि गत्वा न पुनर्हि जायते॥

Word by Word

• cared: should conduct oneself/should live

• hi: indeed

• śuddhaḥ: purified, inwardly pure

• sama-loṣṭaka-āñcanaḥ: equal toward a lump of clay and gold (equanimous to low and high)

• samasta-bhūteṣu: toward all beings

• ca: and

• sat-samāhitaḥ: well-composed, firmly concentrated in the good/real (sat)

• sthānam: abode, state

• dhruvam: fixed, unwavering

• śāśvatam: eternal

• avyayam: imperishable

• tu: indeed

• param: the supreme

• gatvā: having attained

• na: not

• punaḥ: again

• hi: certainly

• jāyate: is born

Speaker

Suta Goswami (narrating the teaching to the sages of Naimisharanya)