विचारचारवो जीवा भासयन्तो दिशो दश । भान्ति भास्करवन्नूनं भूयोभवभयापहाः ॥ २४ ॥
vicāracāravō jīvā bhāsayantō diśō daśa | bhānti bhāskaravannūnaṁ bhūyōbhavabhayāpahāḥ || 24 ||
Translation
Beings made fair by inquiry, lighting the ten directions, surely shine like the sun, dispelling the fear of becoming again.
Word by word
- vicāra
- by inquiry
- cāravō
- (cāravaḥ) made fair
- jīvā
- (jīvāḥ) beings
- bhāsayantō
- (bhāsayantaḥ) lighting
- diśō
- (diśaḥ) the directions
- daśa
- ten
- bhānti
- shine
- bhāskara
- the sun
- van
- (vat) like
- nūnaṁ
- surely
- bhūyō
- (bhūyaḥ) again
- bhava
- of becoming
- bhaya
- the fear
- apahāḥ
- dispelling
Meaning
The commentary takes them as those freed in life through inquiry. The sun destroys darkness by its light, and they destroy, for many beings, the darkness of saṁsāra by theirs. Bhava is becoming, the round of birth, and the fear they remove is the fear of coming into it again.