प्रामाणिकस्य तज्ज्ञस्य वक्तुः पृष्टस्य यत्नतः । नाऽनुतिष्ठति यो वाक्यं नाऽन्यस्तस्मान्नराधमः ॥ ४६ ॥
prāmāṇikasya tajjñasya vaktuḥ pṛṣṭasya yatnataḥ | nā’nutiṣṭhati yō vākyaṁ nā’nyastasmānnarādhamaḥ || 46 ||
Translation
And one who has asked a reliable speaker, a knower of that truth, and does not carefully act on his words: there is no one lower than he.
Word by word
- prāmāṇikasya
- a reliable
- tajjñasya
- a knower of that truth
- vaktuḥ
- speaker
- pṛṣṭasya
- who has been asked
- yatnataḥ
- carefully
- na
- no
- anutiṣṭhati
- acts on
- yō
- (yaḥ) one who
- vākyaṁ
- his words
- anyas
- (anyaḥ) other
- tasmān
- (tasmāt) than he
- narādhamaḥ
- lower person
Meaning
The opposite failure, and it is judged more harshly in language: mūḍhatara before, narādhama, lowest of people, now. Asking the wrong person is a mistake. To ask the right one and do nothing with the answer is a kind of insincerity. The word is anutiṣṭhati, to carry out, to practise. Hearing the truth with interest, and admiring it, is not counted as having received it.