4. Chapter 4

श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । मनो बुद्धिरहंकार इन्द्रियादि तथानघ । अचेत्यचिन्मयं सर्वं क्व ते जीवादयः स्थिताः ॥ १ ॥

śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | mano buddhirahaṃkāra indriyādi tathānagha | acetyacinmayaṃ sarvaṃ kva te jīvādayaḥ sthitāḥ || 1 ||

Vasishtha continued:—Rama! knowing your mind, understanding, egoism and all your senses, to be insensible of themselves, and deriving their sensibility from the intellect; say how can your living soul and the vital breaths, have any sensation of their own.

एकेनैवात्मना दत्ता नानातेयं महात्मना । यथैकेनैव चन्द्रेण तिमिराप्पात्रदर्पणैः ॥ २ ॥

ekenaivātmanā dattā nānāteyaṃ mahātmanā | yathaikenaiva candreṇa timirāppātradarpaṇaiḥ || 2 ||

It is the one great soul, that infuses its power to those different organs; as the one bright sun dispenses his light, to all the various objects in their diverse colours.

भोगतृष्णाविषावेशो यदैवोपशमं गतः । तदैवमस्तमज्ञानमान्ध्यं ध्वान्तक्षयादिव ॥ ३ ॥

bhogatṛṣṇāviṣāveśo yadaivopaśamaṃ gataḥ | tadaivamastamajñānamāndhyaṃ dhvāntakṣayādiva || 3 ||

As the pangs of the poisonous thirst after worldly enjoyments, come to an end; so the insensibility of ignorance, flies away like darkness at the end of the night.

अध्यात्मशास्त्रमन्त्रेण तृष्णाविषविषूचिका । क्षीयते भावितेनान्तः शरदा मिहिका यथा ॥ ४ ॥

adhyātmaśāstramantreṇa tṛṣṇāviṣaviṣūcikā | kṣīyate bhāvitenāntaḥ śaradā mihikā yathā || 4 ||

It is the incantation of spiritual knowledge only, that is able to heal the pain of baneful avarice;as it is in the power of autumn only, to dispel the clouds of the rainy-season.

मौर्ख्ये क्षीणे क्षतं विद्धि चित्तं राम सबान्धवम् । विलीनाम्बुधरे व्योम्नि जाड्यं शाम्यत्यविघ्नतः ॥ ५ ॥

maurkhye kṣīṇe kṣataṃ viddhi cittaṃ rāma sabāndhavam | vilīnāmbudhare vyomni jāḍyaṃ śāmyatyavighnataḥ || 5 ||

It is the dissipation of ignorance, which washes the mind of its attendant desires; as it is the disappearance of the rainy weather, which scatters the clouds in the sky.

अचित्तत्वं गते चित्ते क्षीयते वासनाभ्रमः । हारमुक्तासमावेशश्छिन्ने तन्ताविवानघ ॥ ६ ॥

acittatvaṃ gate citte kṣīyate vāsanābhramaḥ | hāramuktāsamāveśaśchinne tantāvivānagha || 6 ||

The mind being weakened to unmindfulness, loses the chain of its desires from it; as a necklace of pearls being loosened from its broken string, tosses the precious gems all about the ground.

रघुनाथ विघाताय शास्त्रार्थं भावयन्ति ये । कृमिकीटत्वयोग्याय चेतसा संमिलन्ति ते ॥ ७ ॥

raghunātha vighātāya śāstrārthaṃ bhāvayanti ye | kṛmikīṭatvayogyāya cetasā saṃmilanti te || 7 ||

Rama! they that are unmindful of the sastras, and mind to undermine them; resemble the worms and insects, that mine the ground wherein they remain.

नवतामरसाकारकान्तलोचनलोलता । शान्ते मौर्ख्येऽक्षता वाते चलता सरसो यथा ॥ ८ ॥

navatāmarasākārakāntalocanalolatā | śānte maurkhye'kṣatā vāte calatā saraso yathā || 8 ||

The fickle eye-sight of the idle and curious gazer on all things, becomes motionless after their ignorant curiosity is over and has ceased to stir; as the shaking lotus of the lake becomes steady, after the gusts of wind have passed away and stopped.

स्थिरतामुपयातोऽसि भावाभावविवर्जितः । पदे परमविस्तारे नभसीव प्रभञ्जनः ॥ ९ ॥

sthiratāmupayāto'si bhāvābhāvavivarjitaḥ | pade paramavistāre nabhasīva prabhañjanaḥ || 9 ||

You have got rid, O Rama! of your thought of all entities and non-entities, and found your steadiness in the ever-steady unity of God;as the restless winds mix at last with the calm vacuum.

मन्ये मद्वचनैर्बोधमागतोऽसि रघूद्वह । विगताज्ञाननिद्रोऽन्तर्नृपतिः पटहैरिव ॥ १० ॥

manye madvacanairbodhamāgato'si raghūdvaha | vigatājñānanidro'ntarnṛpatiḥ paṭahairiva || 10 ||

I ween you have been awakened to sense, by these series of my sermons to you; as kings are awakened from their nightly sleep, by the sound of their eulogists and the music of timbrels.

सामान्ये च लगन्त्येव जने कुलगुरोर्गिरः । अत्युदारमतौ राम न लगन्ति कथं त्वयि ॥ ११ ॥

sāmānye ca lagantyeva jane kulagurorgiraḥ | atyudāramatau rāma na laganti kathaṃ tvayi || 11 ||

Seeing that common people of low understandings, are impressed by the preachings of their parish parsons; I have every reason to believe that my sermons must make their impression, upon the good understanding of Rama.

यत्रोपादेयवाक्यत्वं भावितं स्वेन चेतसा । मद्वचोऽन्तर्विशत्युच्चैस्तप्ते क्षेत्रे यथा पयः ॥ १२ ॥

yatropādeyavākyatvaṃ bhāvitaṃ svena cetasā | madvaco'ntarviśatyuccaistapte kṣetre yathā payaḥ || 12 ||

As you are in the habit of considering well, the good counsel of others in your mind;so I doubt not, that my counsel will penetrate your mind, as the cool rain-water enters into the parched ground of the earth.

वयमिह हि महानुभाव नित्यं कुलगुरवो भवतां रघूद्वहानाम् । मदुदितमिदमाशु धार्यमार्य शुभवचनं हृदि हारवत्त्वयेति ॥ १३ ॥

vayamiha hi mahānubhāva nityaṃ kulaguravo bhavatāṃ raghūdvahānām | maduditamidamāśu dhāryamārya śubhavacanaṃ hṛdi hāravattvayeti || 13 ||

Knowing me as your family priest, and my family as the spiritual guides of Raghus race for ever; you must receive with regard my good advices to you, and set my words as a neck-chain to your heart.