विषमेयमनन्तेह राम संसारसंसृतिः । देहयुक्तो महाजन्तुर्विना ज्ञानं न पश्यति ॥ ३५ ॥
viṣamēyamanantēha rāma saṁsārasaṁsṛtiḥ | dēhayuktō mahājanturvinā jñānaṁ na paśyati || 35 ||
Translation
This course of saṁsāra, Rāma, is harsh and endless here. Tied to the body, even a great being does not see without knowledge.
Word by word
- viṣamā
- harsh
- iyam
- this
- anantā
- endless
- iha
- here
- rāma
- Rāma
- saṁsāra
- of saṁsāra
- saṁsṛtiḥ
- course
- dēha
- to the body
- yuktō
- (yuktaḥ) tied
- mahājantur
- (mahājantuḥ) a great being
- vinā
- without
- jñānaṁ
- knowledge
- na
- not
- paśyati
- does see
Meaning
The commentary says that even a great soul, while identified with the body, is no better than a worm or an insect; another commentary reads mahā-jantu as a person of great wealth, who for all that is like an insect, and says what he does not see is the true form of the world and the Lord. Both readings make the same point. Rank does not reach the problem. Whoever takes the body for the self is standing in the same place, whatever their size in the world.