बालस्य स्वमनोमोहकल्पितः प्राणहारकः । रात्रौ नभसि वेतालो विचारेण विलीयते ॥ २५ ॥
bālasya svamanōmōhakalpitaḥ prāṇahārakaḥ | rātrau nabhasi vētālō vicārēṇa vilīyatē || 25 ||
Translation
The goblin that a child's own deluded mind imagines in the night sky, that would take his life, dissolves through inquiry.
Word by word
- bālasya
- a child’s
- sva
- own
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- mōha
- deluded
- kalpitaḥ
- imagined
- prāṇa
- his life
- hārakaḥ
- that would take
- rātrau
- at night
- nabhasi
- in the sky
- vētālō
- (vetālaḥ) the goblin
- vicārēṇa
- through inquiry
- vilīyatē
- dissolves
Meaning
The commentary gives the setting: a goblin is imagined in the sky at night so that the child will not go outside. The fear can kill, and yet there is nothing there to kill him. The next two verses apply the picture, and this one fixes its two sides: the danger is made by the mind, and it ends when the mind looks.