विक्रीता इव तिष्ठाम एतैर्दैवादिभिर्वयम् । मुने प्रपञ्चरचनैर्मुग्धा वनमृगा इव ॥ २ ॥
vikrītā iva tiṣṭhāma ētairdaivādibhirvayam | munē prapañcaracanairmugdhā vanamṛgā iva || 2 ||
Translation
We stand as if sold to these powers, Fate and the rest, O sage, bewildered by their tricks, like deer in the forest.
Word by word
- vikrītā
- (vikrītāḥ) sold
- iva
- as if
- tiṣṭhāma
- we stand
- ētair
- (etaiḥ) to these
- daiva
- Fate
- ādibhir
- (ādibhiḥ) and the rest
- vayam
- we
- munē
- O sage
- prapañca
- of the world
- racanair
- (racanaiḥ) by the tricks
- mugdhā
- (mugdhāḥ) bewildered
- vana
- in the forest
- mṛgā
- (mṛgāḥ) deer
Meaning
A slave sold to a master has no say over his life. Rāma feels that he and everyone are as if sold to fate, time and necessity, and bewildered by the "contrivances of the world" (prapañca-racana), the commentary says, the objects of sense, as deer are lured by the hunter's tricks. The verse names a feeling common to many: that one's life is being run by forces one did not choose. The teaching will show that the bond is in one's own mind.