इदं त्वपूर्वमुत्पन्नं चमत्कारकरं सताम् । तवाऽनिमित्तं वैराग्यं सात्त्विकं स्वविवेकजम् ॥ २२ ॥
idaṁ tvapūrvamutpannaṁ camatkārakaraṁ satām | tavā’nimittaṁ vairāgyaṁ sāttvikaṁ svavivēkajam || 22 ||
Translation
But this dispassion of yours has arisen as never before, a wonder to the good: without a cause, of the nature of clarity (sattva), born of your own discernment.
Word by word
- idaṁ
- this
- tu
- but
- apūrvam
- as never before
- utpannaṁ
- has arisen
- camatkāra
- a wonder
- karaṁ
- making
- satām
- to the good
- tava
- your
- animittaṁ
- without a cause
- vairāgyaṁ
- dispassion
- sāttvikaṁ
- of the nature of clarity
- sva
- your own
- vivēka
- discernment
- jam
- born of
Meaning
The contrast is made exact. Rāma's dispassion is sāttvika, which the commentary explains: it comes from discernment alone. The difference between this and the former kind is in what produced it. One comes from what happened to you, and one from what you saw. The word apūrvam, unprecedented, is high praise from a teacher this old.