तुषारकरबिम्बाभं मनो यस्य निराकुलम् । मरणोत्सवयुद्धेषु स शान्त इति कथ्यते ॥ ७५ ॥
tuṣārakarabimbābhaṁ manō yasya nirākulam | maraṇōtsavayuddhēṣu sa śānta iti kathyatē || 75 ||
Translation
One whose mind, like the moon's disk, stays unruffled in death, in festival and in war is called peaceful.
Word by word
- tuṣāra
- cool
- kara
- rayed
- bimba
- the disk
- ābhaṁ
- like
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- yasya
- one whose
- nirākulam
- unruffled
- maraṇa
- in death
- utsava
- in festival
- yuddhēṣu
- and in war
- sa
- that one
- śānta
- (śāntaḥ) peaceful
- iti
- thus
- kathyatē
- is called
Meaning
The commentary pairs each with its danger: fear at death, passion at a festival, anger in war. It is a thoughtful grouping. Festivals are not usually classed with disasters, but joy can take a person out of himself as thoroughly as terror does. A calm that holds only in bad times has not been tested by good ones.