चतुर्विधावधूतमाहात्म्यकथनम्The greatness of the four kinds of avadhūta
Verse 183
यथाऽर्णवगतं वारि न पृथग्भावमाप्नुयात् । तथा कुलाम्बुधौ मग्ना न भवेयुर्जनाः पृथक् ॥ १८३ ॥
yathā’rṇavagataṁ vāri na pṛthagbhāvamāpnuyāt | tathā kulāmbudhau magnā na bhavēyurjanāḥ pṛthak || 183 ||
Translation
As water gone into the ocean does not attain a separate being, so people plunged in the ocean of the Kula are not apart.
Word by word
- yathā
- as
- arṇava
- (arṇava) into the ocean
- gataṁ
- gone
- vāri
- water
- na
- not
- pṛthag
- (pṛthak) separate
- bhāvam
- being
- āpnuyāt
- attains
- tathā
- so
- kula
- of the Kula
- ambudhau
- (ambudhau) in the ocean
- magnā
- (magnāḥ) plunged
- bhavēyur
- (bhaveyuḥ) are
- janāḥ
- people
- pṛthak
- apart
Meaning
A third image, and the strongest. Rivers may keep their names up to the shore, but there they cease to be counted. It is the Tantra's picture of a community with no inner divisions.
Commentary
Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated
See the commentary on verse 178.