तान्येव सुखदुःखानि भावाभावमयान्यसौ । भूयोऽप्यनुभवन् कायः प्राकृतो हि न लज्जते ॥ ४३ ॥
tānyēva sukhaduḥkhāni bhāvābhāvamayānyasau | bhūyō’pyanubhavan kāyaḥ prākṛtō hi na lajjatē || 43 ||
Translation
Feeling again and again those same joys and sorrows, made of having and not having, the common body feels no shame.
Word by word
- tāni
- those
- ēva
- same
- sukha
- joys
- duḥkhāni
- and sorrows
- bhāva
- of having
- abhāva
- and not having
- mayāni
- made
- asau
- it
- bhūyō
- (bhūyaḥ) again
- api
- and again
- anubhavan
- feeling
- kāyaḥ
- the body
- prākṛtō
- (prākṛtaḥ) common
- hi
- indeed
- na
- no
- lajjatē
- feels shame
Meaning
The body goes through the same round of pleasure and pain, gain and loss, again and again, and is never ashamed of the repetition. It is prākṛta, common, vulgar; another commentary, a wretch. A person of any dignity, after the hundredth time the same pleasure disappointed them, would stop. The body never learns. The reader may notice that the repetition of the same wants and the same griefs is itself something to be ashamed of, and something that can end.