विविधदोषदशापरिचिन्तनै- र्विततभङ्गुरकारणकल्पितैः । मम न निर्वृतिमेति मनो मुने निगडितस्य यथा वनदन्तिनः ॥ २७ ॥
vividhadōṣadaśāparicintanai- rvitatabhaṅgurakāraṇakalpitaiḥ | mama na nirvṛtimēti manō munē nigaḍitasya yathā vanadantinaḥ || 27 ||
Translation
My mind finds no peace, O sage, with the thoughts of every kind of fault and suffering, imagined from causes that are all of them fragile, as a wild elephant finds none when it is chained.
Word by word
- vividha
- every kind of
- dōṣa
- fault
- daśā
- and suffering
- paricintanair
- (paricintanaiḥ) with the thoughts
- vitata
- all
- bhaṅgura
- fragile
- kāraṇa
- from causes
- kalpitaiḥ
- imagined
- mama
- my
- na
- no
- nirvṛtim
- peace
- ēti
- finds
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- munē
- O sage
- nigaḍitasya
- when chained
- yathā
- as
- vana
- wild
- dantinaḥ
- an elephant
Meaning
The verse is in a longer metre. A wild elephant in chains cannot rest; it strains and paces. So Rāma's mind, bound to the thought of a world whose every cause is fragile (bhaṅgura), cannot settle. The verse states his condition exactly: he has seen enough to be unable to rest in the world, and not yet enough to rest beyond it.