एवं विमृशतो ब्रह्मन् सर्वेष्वेव ततो मम । भावेष्वरतिरायाता पथिकस्य मरुष्विव ॥ १६ ॥
ēvaṁ vimṛśatō brahman sarvēṣvēva tatō mama | bhāvēṣvaratirāyātā pathikasya maruṣviva || 16 ||
Translation
As I reflected in this way, O brahmin, distaste for all things came over me, as it comes over a traveller for the deserts.
Word by word
- ēvaṁ
- in this way
- vimṛśatō
- (vimṛśataḥ) as I reflected
- brahman
- (brahman) O brahmin
- sarvēṣu
- for all
- ēva
- indeed
- tatō
- (tataḥ) then
- mama
- over me
- bhāvēṣu
- things
- aratir
- (aratiḥ) distaste
- āyātā
- came
- pathikasya
- over a traveller
- maruṣu
- for the deserts
- iva
- as
Meaning
A traveller who has crossed a desert once does not long to see it again; he knows the heat and the thirst. So Rāma, having seen through things, has lost the wish for them. This is arati, distaste: not hatred, which would still bind him, but the simple absence of appetite.