तत्समस्तसुखासारसीमान्तं साधवो विदुः । तदनुत्तमनिष्पन्दं परमाहू रसायनम् ॥ ४३ ॥
tatsamastasukhāsārasīmāntaṁ sādhavō viduḥ | tadanuttamaniṣpandaṁ paramāhū rasāyanam || 43 ||
Translation
The good know it as the far limit of the showers of every joy. They call that unsurpassed stillness the supreme elixir.
Word by word
- tat
- it
- samasta
- every
- sukha
- joy
- āsāra
- of the showers
- sīmāntaṁ
- the far limit
- sādhavō
- (sādhavaḥ) the good
- viduḥ
- know
- tad
- that
- anuttama
- unsurpassed
- niṣpandaṁ
- stillness
- param
- the supreme
- āhū
- (āhuḥ) they call
- rasāyanam
- elixir
Meaning
Āsāra is a sudden heavy shower. All the joys of the world are such showers, and the commentary pictures this state as the cloud they fall from, their furthest limit. So it is not one more joy beside others. Whatever delight has ever been felt was a little of this, falling. Niṣpanda, without movement, is the word for the stillness of that reality, set against the spanda, the stir, of 2.10.12.