विवेकेन परीतात्मा तेनाऽहं तदनु स्वयम् । भोगनीरसया बुद्ध्या प्रविचारितवानिदम् ॥ ६ ॥
vivēkēna parītātmā tēnā’haṁ tadanu svayam | bhōganīrasayā buddhyā pravicāritavānidam || 6 ||
Translation
Filled with discrimination by it, I then reflected on this by myself, with a mind for which pleasures had lost their taste:
Word by word
- vivēkēna
- with discrimination
- parīta
- filled
- ātmā
- myself
- tēna
- by it
- ahaṁ
- I
- tadanu
- then
- svayam
- by myself
- bhōga
- pleasures
- nīrasayā
- tasteless
- buddhyā
- with a mind
- pravicāritavān
- reflected on
- idam
- this
Meaning
Two things work together. Discrimination (viveka) sees the difference between what lasts and what passes; pleasures losing their taste (bhoga-nīrasa) is the feeling side of the same seeing. Rāma reflected "by myself" (svayam): no teacher had yet spoken. The insight that begins the path is one's own; a teacher can only meet it.