पुंसो निजमनोमोहकल्पितोऽनल्पदुःखदः । संसारचिरवेतालो विचारेण विलीयते ॥ २७ ॥
puṁsō nijamanōmōhakalpitō’nalpaduḥkhadaḥ | saṁsāraciravētālō vicārēṇa vilīyatē || 27 ||
Translation
The long goblin of saṁsāra, imagined by a man's own deluded mind and giving no small sorrow, dissolves through inquiry.
Word by word
- puṁsō
- (puṁsaḥ) of a man
- nija
- own
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- mōha
- by the deluded
- kalpitō
- (kalpitaḥ) imagined
- analpa
- no small
- duḥkhadaḥ
- giving sorrow
- saṁsāra
- of saṁsāra
- cira
- long
- vētālō
- (vetālaḥ) the goblin
- vicārēṇa
- through inquiry
- vilīyatē
- dissolves
Meaning
Now the child's goblin is applied. Saṁsāra is the goblin, imagined by the person's own not-knowing, as the commentary says. It is called long, chira, because it has haunted him over many lives. And it ends the same way as the child's: not by a fight, but by looking at it.