कष्टं संसारनामाऽयं दोषः कथमिहाऽऽगतः । इति चिन्तितवानन्तस्तूष्णीमेव व्यवस्थितः ॥ ३२ ॥
kaṣṭaṁ saṁsāranāmā’yaṁ dōṣaḥ kathamihā’’gataḥ | iti cintitavānantastūṣṇīmēva vyavasthitaḥ || 32 ||
Translation
"Alas, how has this fault called saṁsāra come here?" So I thought within, and remained silent.
Word by word
- kaṣṭaṁ
- alas
- saṁsāra
- saṁsāra
- nāma
- called
- ayaṁ
- this
- dōṣaḥ
- fault
- katham
- how
- iha
- here
- āgataḥ
- has come
- iti
- so
- cintitavān
- I thought
- antas
- (antaḥ) within
- tūṣṇīm
- silent
- ēva
- just
- vyavasthitaḥ
- remained
Meaning
Listen to what comes first once the sorrow has entered: a question. Kaṣṭam, alas, and then katham, how? It is the same question Rāma asked in the Vairāgya Prakaraṇa, in nearly the same state, and Vasiṣṭha means him to recognise it. The sage is telling the prince, indirectly, that your despair is the first thing I too felt, and that it was the beginning of the way out. He does not rage, and he does not distract himself. Tūṣṇīm, he stays quiet. The word doṣa, fault or disease, calls saṁsāra a condition with a cause, and a thing with a cause can be asked about.