अकृत्रिमविरागत्वं महत्त्वमलमागतः । योग्योऽसि ज्ञानसारस्य बीजस्येव मृदु स्थलम् ॥ २९ ॥
akṛtrimavirāgatvaṁ mahattvamalamāgataḥ | yōgyō’si jñānasārasya bījasyēva mṛdu sthalam || 29 ||
Translation
You have come fully to the greatness of an unforced dispassion, and you are fit for the essence of knowledge, as soft ground is for seed.
Word by word
- akṛtrima
- unforced
- virāgatvaṁ
- of dispassion
- mahattvam
- to the greatness
- alam
- fully
- āgataḥ
- you have come
- yōgyō
- (yogyaḥ) fit
- asi
- you are
- jñāna
- of knowledge
- sārasya
- for the essence
- bījasya
- for seed
- iva
- as
- mṛdu
- soft
- sthalam
- ground
Meaning
Akṛtrima, not made, not artificial. Vasiṣṭha now says what follows for Rāma: he is yogya, fit. The commentary fills in the farmer's sense of the comparison: a well-ploughed field, soft from the ploughing, is ready for seed. One may see Rāma's long despondency as that ploughing. The reader who feels broken up by doubt may take this image to heart.