न करोतीन्द्रजालानि नाऽनुधावति वासनाम् । बालचापलमुत्सृज्य पूर्वमेव विराजते ॥ ८ ॥
na karōtīndrajālāni nā’nudhāvati vāsanām | bālacāpalamutsṛjya pūrvamēva virājatē || 8 ||
Translation
It makes no magic shows, and it does not run after tendencies. Leaving a child's restlessness, it shines as it was from of old.
Word by word
- na
- not
- karōti
- it makes
- indrajālāni
- magic shows
- anudhāvati
- it runs after
- vāsanām
- tendencies
- bāla
- a child's
- cāpalam
- restlessness
- utsṛjya
- leaving
- pūrvam
- of old
- ēva
- just as
- virājatē
- it shines
Meaning
Indrajāla, the conjuring show, is what the mind has been producing all along, and vāsanā is what drives it. The commentary calls vāsanā the mother of those disturbances. Pūrvam eva, as before: the commentary explains this as the beginningless bliss of the Self. So the mind's fulfilment is a return. The restless child in us is not given anything new. It stops running, and what was always there is noticed.