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Mahānirvāṇa Tantra 8.52

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Ullāsa 8 · Verse 52

गृहस्थकर्त्तव्यानिThe duties of the householder

Verse 52

युक्ताहारो युक्तनिद्रो मितवाङ्मितमैथुनः । स्वच्छो नम्रः शुचिर्दक्षो युक्तः स्यात् सर्वकर्मसु ॥ ५२ ॥

yuktāhārō yuktanidrō mitavāṅmitamaithunaḥ | svacchō namraḥ śucirdakṣō yuktaḥ syāt sarvakarmasu || 52 ||

Translation

Measured in food and sleep, sparing in speech and in intercourse, clean, humble, pure, capable, he should be diligent in all his work.

Word by word

yukta
measured
āhārō
(āhāraḥ) in food
nidrō
(nidraḥ) in sleep
mita
sparing
vāṅ
(vāk) in speech
maithunaḥ
in intercourse
svacchō
(svacchaḥ) clean
namraḥ
humble
śucir
(śuciḥ) pure
dakṣō
(dakṣaḥ) capable
yuktaḥ
diligent
syāt
he should be
sarva
in all
karmasu
his work

Meaning

The Gītā's "yuktāhāra-vihāra" (6.17), measure in food and recreation, applied to the householder. The commentary glosses each word: "svaccha", clean, means free of deceit and the like; "śuci", pure, outwardly and inwardly; "dakṣa", capable, free of sloth; "yukta", energetic. Sexual life in marriage is not renounced but measured.

Commentary

Hariharānanda Bhāratī’s Sanskrit commentary, translated

Yuktāhāraḥ: eating in measure. Svacchaḥ: free of deceit and the like. Śuciḥ: endowed with outer and inner purity. Dakṣaḥ: free of sloth. Yuktaḥ: energetic.