व्यपगतकलनाकलङ्कशुद्धः स्वयममलात्मनि पावने पदेऽसौ । सलिलकण इवाऽम्बुधौ महात्मा विगलितवासनमेकतां जगाम ॥ ४५ ॥
vyapagatakalanākalaṅkaśuddhaḥ svayamamalātmani pāvanē padē’sau | salilakaṇa ivā’mbudhau mahātmā vigalitavāsanamēkatāṁ jagāma || 45 ||
Translation
Pure, rid of the stain of thought-forming, the great soul, his latent impressions dissolved, became one with the pure, holy state of the stainless Self, as a drop of water with the ocean.
Word by word
- vyapagata
- rid of
- kalanā
- of thought-forming
- kalaṅka
- the stain
- śuddhaḥ
- pure
- svayam
- himself
- amala
- of the stainless
- ātmani
- Self
- pāvanē
- holy
- padē
- with the state
- asau
- he
- salila
- of water
- kaṇa
- (kaṇaḥ) a drop
- iva
- as
- ambudhau
- with the ocean
- mahātmā
- the great soul
- vigalita
- dissolved
- vāsanam
- his latent impressions
- ēkatāṁ
- one
- jagāma
- became
Meaning
The sarga ends in the puṣpitāgrā metre, with Śuka's final union. The "stain of thought-forming" (kalanā-kalaṅka) is gone; his latent impressions (vāsanā) have dissolved; and he becomes one (ekatā) with the stainless Self as a drop of water with the ocean. The commentary: with attachment and its cause, ignorance, destroyed, untouched by merit and sin stored up or to come, and with the karma already begun exhausted, the conditions that set him apart fell away and he reached his true, undivided oneness. The drop and the ocean are the same water; what made the drop a drop was only its boundary. So ends the story Viśvāmitra told for Rāma. Its lesson is in the contrast at its heart: Śuka knew the truth at the beginning and at the end; what changed was the rest. The reader may ask, as Rāma is meant to, whether what he lacks is knowledge, or only the trust to rest in it.