पूर्णब्राह्मावधूतस्य सर्वकर्मण्यनधिकारःThe complete Brāhma avadhūta has no duty of any act
Verse 171
नाऽर्पणं भक्ष्यपेयानां न तस्य ध्यानधारणाः । मुक्तो विरक्तो निर्द्वन्द्वो हंसाचारपरो यतिः ॥ १७१ ॥
nā’rpaṇaṁ bhakṣyapēyānāṁ na tasya dhyānadhāraṇāḥ | muktō viraktō nirdvandvō haṁsācāraparō yatiḥ || 171 ||
Translation
For him there is no offering of food and drink, and no meditation or concentration. The ascetic is free, detached, beyond the pairs, given to the conduct of the Haṁsa.
Word by word
- na
- no
- arpaṇaṁ
- (arpaṇam) offering
- bhakṣya
- of food
- pēyānāṁ
- and drink
- tasya
- for him
- dhyāna
- meditation
- dhāraṇāḥ
- and concentration
- muktō
- (muktaḥ) free
- viraktō
- (viraktaḥ) detached
- nirdvandvō
- (nirdvandvaḥ) beyond the pairs
- haṁsa
- of the Haṁsa
- ācāra
- (ācāra) the conduct
- parō
- (paraḥ) given to
- yatiḥ
- the ascetic
Meaning
This completes the portrait of the Haṁsa. All the acts in which the earlier chapters instructed are absent: no offering before eating, no meditation, as verse 125 said of one who knows Brahman.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 170.