एतदेवाऽस्य मौर्ख्यस्य परमं विद्धि नाशनम् । यदिदं प्रेक्ष्यते शास्त्रं किञ्चित्संस्कृतया धिया ॥ ६८ ॥
ētadēvā’sya maurkhyasya paramaṁ viddhi nāśanam | yadidaṁ prēkṣyatē śāstraṁ kiñcitsaṁskṛtayā dhiyā || 68 ||
Translation
Know that the supreme destroyer of this folly is just this: that a scripture is looked into with an intelligence that has been at least somewhat refined.
Word by word
- ētad
- this
- ēva
- just
- asya
- of this
- maurkhyasya
- folly
- paramaṁ
- the supreme
- viddhi
- know
- nāśanam
- destroyer
- yad
- that
- idaṁ
- this
- prēkṣyatē
- is looked into
- śāstraṁ
- a scripture
- kiñcit
- somewhat
- saṁskṛtayā
- refined
- dhiyā
- with an intelligence
Meaning
Kiñcit-saṁskṛtayā, by one somewhat refined. It asks little and it matters: scripture cures folly, but one must bring some cultivation to it. Another commentary takes śāstra here as this very work. The commentary says that study of scripture is the means by which wisdom increases, and that seeing and reflecting on it, with a purified understanding, is what destroys folly. One goes to the text with what one has, and that is enough to begin.