मलाढ्यविषयव्यूहभाण्डोपस्करसङ्कटम् । अज्ञानक्षारवलितं नेष्टं देहगृहं मम ॥ २४ ॥
malāḍhyaviṣayavyūhabhāṇḍōpaskarasaṅkaṭam | ajñānakṣāravalitaṁ nēṣṭaṁ dēhagṛhaṁ mama || 24 ||
Translation
Crowded with the vessels and goods of the heaps of objects, rich in filth, worn by the lye of ignorance: the house of the body is not wanted by me.
Word by word
- mala
- in filth
- āḍhya
- rich
- viṣaya
- of objects
- vyūha
- of the heaps
- bhāṇḍa
- with the vessels
- upaskara
- and goods
- saṅkaṭam
- crowded
- ajñāna
- of ignorance
- kṣāra
- by the lye
- valitaṁ
- worn
- na
- not
- iṣṭaṁ
- wanted
- dēha
- of the body
- gṛhaṁ
- the house
- mama
- by me
Meaning
A house cluttered with pots and household things, all of them dirty, and its walls eaten by caustic lye. The objects of the senses are the clutter; they are "rich in filth"; and ignorance (ajñāna) is the alkali that eats away the walls. The commentary: tell me, how could such a thing be what I want? The reader may look at the clutter of their own life, the things kept and gathered, and ask what it is all doing to the walls.