तत्राऽनन्तविलासस्य लोलस्य स्वस्य चेतसः । वृत्तीरनुभवन् याति दुःखाद् दुःखान्तरं जडः ॥ २ ॥
tatrā’nantavilāsasya lōlasya svasya cētasaḥ | vṛttīranubhavan yāti duḥkhād duḥkhāntaraṁ jaḍaḥ || 2 ||
Translation
There, feeling the moods of his own mind, restless and endless in its play, the fool goes from sorrow to sorrow.
Word by word
- tatra
- there
- ananta
- endless
- vilāsasya
- in its play
- lōlasya
- restless
- svasya
- of his own
- cētasaḥ
- mind
- vṛttīr
- (vṛttīḥ) the moods
- anubhavan
- feeling
- yāti
- goes
- duḥkhād
- (duḥkhāt) from sorrow
- duḥkha
- sorrow
- antaraṁ
- to another
- jaḍaḥ
- the fool
Meaning
Youth gives the mind room to play, and the mind plays without limit (ananta-vilāsa). The young man feels every movement of it, attraction, aversion, longing, jealousy, and, as the commentary says, passes from one grief to the next, a chain of sorrows. He is jaḍa, "dull", not because he lacks intelligence but because he does not see the pattern. The reader may look back on youth and recognise how each passion that seemed new led into the next.