संसारमिममासाद्य यस्तिष्ठत्यवहेलया । ज्वलितस्य गृहस्योच्चैः शेते तार्णस्य संस्तरे ॥ ३३ ॥
saṁsāramimamāsādya yastiṣṭhatyavahēlayā | jvalitasya gṛhasyōccaiḥ śētē tārṇasya saṁstarē || 33 ||
Translation
One who stays heedless, having come into this saṁsāra, sleeps on a bed of straw in a house that is blazing high.
Word by word
- saṁsāram
- saṁsāra
- imam
- this
- āsādya
- having come into
- yas
- (yaḥ) one who
- tiṣṭhati
- stays
- avahēlayā
- heedless
- jvalitasya
- blazing
- gṛhasya
- in a house
- uccaiḥ
- high
- śētē
- sleeps
- tārṇasya
- of straw
- saṁstarē
- on a bed
Meaning
An image any listener can see, and the most urgent in the sarga. Avahelayā, with disregard, has come back from 2.12.17. A straw bed makes the point worse: the sleeper is lying on fuel. What is so sharp is that sleep feels comfortable to the one in it. Another commentary reads the heedlessness as not gaining the knowledge of the Self.