तत्त्वज्ञानान्मुक्तिःLiberation by knowledge of the truth
Verse 118
मनसा कल्पिता मूर्तिर्नृणां चेन्मोक्षसाधनी । स्वप्नलब्धेन राज्येन राजानो मानवास्तदा ॥ ११८ ॥
manasā kalpitā mūrtirnṛṇāṁ cēnmōkṣasādhanī | svapnalabdhēna rājyēna rājānō mānavāstadā || 118 ||
Translation
If a form imagined by the mind were a means to liberation for people, then humans would be kings by a kingdom won in a dream.
Word by word
- manasā
- by the mind
- kalpitā
- imagined
- mūrtir
- (mūrtiḥ) a form
- nṛṇāṁ
- for people
- cēn
- (cet) if
- mōkṣa
- of liberation
- sādhanī
- a means
- svapna
- in a dream
- labdhēna
- won
- rājyēna
- by a kingdom
- rājānō
- (rājānaḥ) kings
- mānavās
- (mānavāḥ) humans
- tadā
- then
Meaning
A sharp comparison. This text has given whole chapters to the forms of the Goddess, and has said (13.4) that such forms are imagined for the sake of the worshipper; here it adds that the imagined form can only take one so far.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 116.