Shloka 446

Mind as Charioteer; Kṣetrajña, Tapas, and Dhyāna-Yoga

Adhyātma-Upadeśa

Devanagari script

एवं षड्विधविस्तारो रसो वारिमय: स्मृत: । मीठा, खट्टा, कड्आ, तीता, कसैला और नमकीन--इस प्रकार छ: भेदोंमें जलमय रसका विस्तार बताया गया है

Transliteration

evaṁ ṣaḍvidha-vistāro raso vāri-mayaḥ smṛtaḥ |

Translation

Thần Vāyu-deva nói: “Vậy ‘vị’ thuộc về nước được hiểu là triển khai thành sáu dạng: ngọt, chua, cay, đắng, chát và mặn.” Trong mạch nghĩa, lời dạy này đặt kinh nghiệm giác quan—đặc biệt là vị giác—vào một trật tự có thể nhận biết, để người học hiểu thân và cảm thọ bằng kỷ luật, thay vì buông mình trong mê lầm hưởng thụ.

Word by Word

• एवम्: thus
• Type: Indeclinable
• Root: एवम्

• षड्विध-विस्तारः: sixfold expansion
• षड्विध-विस्तारः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: षड्विध-विस्तार
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• रसः: taste; essence
• रसः: Karta
• Type: Noun
• Root: रस
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• वारिमयः: consisting of water; watery
• वारिमयः: Karta
• Type: Adjective
• Root: वारिमय
• Form: Masculine, Nominative, Singular

• स्मृतः: is said/considered; is remembered as
• Type: Verb
• Root: स्मृ
• Form: क्त (past passive participle), Masculine, Nominative, Singular

Speaker

वायुदेव उवाच

Characters & Entities

• Vāyudeva

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

That taste (rasa), understood as a water-based sensory quality, is systematically classified into six kinds; this supports mindful regulation of sense-experience through clear knowledge rather than impulse.

What is happening in the narrative?

Vāyudeva is delivering an instructive explanation, defining and classifying ‘rasa’ as part of a broader discourse on bodily constituents and sensory functions.