त एव पुरुषार्थस्य भाजनं पुरुषोत्तमाः । अनुत्तमपदालम्बि मनो येषां गतज्वरम् ॥ २५ ॥
ta ēva puruṣārthasya bhājanaṁ puruṣōttamāḥ | anuttamapadālambi manō yēṣāṁ gatajvaram || 25 ||
Translation
They alone are the vessels of the human goal, they are the best of people, whose minds rest on the unsurpassed state, their fever gone.
Word by word
- ta
- (te) they
- ēva
- alone
- puruṣārthasya
- of the human goal
- bhājanaṁ
- the vessels
- puruṣōttamāḥ
- the best of people
- anuttama
- unsurpassed
- pada
- on the state
- ālambi
- rest
- manō
- (manaḥ) minds
- yēṣāṁ
- whose
- gata
- gone
- jvaram
- their fever
Meaning
Gata-jvaram, the fever gone: the commentary reads the phrase as supremely at peace. This word carries the sarga's whole theme, and it comes now in the first of a run of verses contrasting two kinds of life. The test of a person here is what the mind leans on, ālambin. Everyone's mind rests on something. The verse asks a reader to find out what his does.