नित्यं शीतलया राम कलङ्कपरिभिन्नया । पुरुषः शुद्धया वृत्त्या भाति पूर्णतयेन्दुवत् ॥ १८ ॥
nityaṁ śītalayā rāma kalaṅkaparibhinnayā | puruṣaḥ śuddhayā vṛttyā bhāti pūrṇatayēnduvat || 18 ||
Translation
With a state of mind always cool, pure and set apart from the stain, Rāma, a person shines in his fullness, like the moon.
Word by word
- nityaṁ
- always
- śītalayā
- cool
- rāma
- Rāma
- kalaṅka
- from the stain
- paribhinnayā
- set apart
- puruṣaḥ
- a person
- śuddhayā
- pure
- vṛttyā
- with a state of mind
- bhāti
- shines
- pūrṇatayā
- in his fullness
- indu
- the moon
- vat
- like
Meaning
The commentary takes up a doubt: the sorrow that comes from the veiling, the seed of sorrow, will it not still be there? It answers from the moon. On the night of the new moon the waning moon cannot be told apart from its dark mark; it seems sunk in it, and near the sun it has no coolness. The same moon at full, whole in its sixteen digits, lights up even its mark, and shines with a pure light distinct from it. So a person in discontent is sunk in the stain of ignorance and burned by the three kinds of suffering; full with the digits of contentment, he is the witness of that stain, untouched by it, and shines cool with the joy of the Self. The mark is not said to vanish. It is seen, and no longer clouds the light.