अपुनर्ग्रहणायाऽन्तस्त्यक्त्वा संसारवासनाम् । सम्पूर्णौ शमसन्तोषावादायोदारया धिया ॥ ५ ॥
apunargrahaṇāyā’ntastyaktvā saṁsāravāsanām | sampūrṇau śamasantōṣāvādāyōdārayā dhiyā || 5 ||
Translation
Give up within you the tendencies of saṁsāra, never to take them up again; take up peace and contentment in full, with a generous mind;
Word by word
- apunar
- not again
- grahaṇāya
- for taking up
- antas
- (antar) within
- tyaktvā
- giving up
- saṁsāra
- of saṁsāra
- vāsanām
- the tendency
- sampūrṇau
- in full
- śama
- peace
- santōṣau
- contentment
- ādāya
- taking up
- udārayā
- with a generous
- dhiyā
- mind
Meaning
Verses 5 to 7 are one sentence: they say how to listen. First comes a giving up, inwardly (antar), of the habits that keep the round of life turning, and apunar-grahaṇāya, so as not to pick them up again. That qualifier is the hard part, for everyone has put a habit down for a while. Two of the four gatekeepers of liberation named in later sargas appear here, peace (śama) and contentment (santoṣa), to be taken up sampūrṇau, whole, not as a mood. The last words are lovely: udārayā dhiyā, with a generous intelligence. A mean, suspicious mind can hear every word of a teaching and receive none of it, because it listens to find what is wrong, or what it can use.