न च रौति तथा रोगी नाऽनर्थशतजर्जरः । अविचारविनष्टात्मा यथाऽज्ञः परिरोदिति ॥ ४५ ॥
na ca rauti tathā rōgī nā’narthaśatajarjaraḥ | avicāravinaṣṭātmā yathā’jñaḥ parirōditi || 45 ||
Translation
No sick man, worn by a hundred harms, cries as the ignorant cries whose self is ruined by non-inquiry.
Word by word
- na
- not
- ca
- and
- rauti
- cries
- tathā
- so
- rōgī
- a sick man
- anartha
- harms
- śata
- by a hundred
- jarjaraḥ
- worn
- avicāra
- by non-inquiry
- vinaṣṭa
- ruined
- ātmā
- whose self
- yathā
- as
- ajñaḥ
- the ignorant
- parirōditi
- cries
Meaning
The commentary names the harms: disease, poison, the wounds of weapons. However great, such sorrow ends. The one ruined by non-inquiry weeps through a long series of births. The comparison is not meant to make light of bodily pain, only to show the size of the other.