अनपायि निराशङ्कं स्वास्थ्यं विगतविभ्रमम् । न विना केवलीभावाद् विद्यते भुवनत्रये ॥ ३७ ॥
anapāyi nirāśaṅkaṁ svāsthyaṁ vigatavibhramam | na vinā kēvalībhāvād vidyatē bhuvanatrayē || 37 ||
Translation
Unfailing ease of being, free of dread and free of confusion, exists nowhere in the three worlds apart from the state of aloneness.
Word by word
- anapāyi
- unfailing
- nirāśaṅkaṁ
- free of dread
- svāsthyaṁ
- ease of being
- vigata
- free of
- vibhramam
- confusion
- na
- not
- vinā
- apart from
- kēvalībhāvād
- (kevalībhāvāt) the state of aloneness
- vidyatē
- exists
- bhuvana
- worlds
- trayē
- in the three
Meaning
Kevalī-bhāva, the state of being alone. The commentary says that it is the state empty of body, senses and objects, and the other commentary, the settledness in the Self of pure knowing, with identification with body and senses dropped. Both are careful to say what is meant, because 'alone' here does not mean lonely. It means there is nothing second. The objection answered is an obvious one: heavenly joys exist and are simpler. The commentary replies that heaven passes, one lives in fear of falling from it, and one envies those higher. Svāsthya is health, literally standing in oneself.