न तथा सुखयन्त्येताः पीयूषरसवीचयः । यथाऽतिमधुरास्वादः सन्तोषो दोषनाशनः ॥ ५ ॥
na tathā sukhayantyētāḥ pīyūṣarasavīcayaḥ | yathā’timadhurāsvādaḥ santōṣō dōṣanāśanaḥ || 5 ||
Translation
These waves of nectar do not delight as contentment does, whose taste is exceedingly sweet and which destroys faults.
Word by word
- na
- not
- tathā
- so
- sukhayanti
- delight
- ētāḥ
- these
- pīyūṣa
- of nectar
- rasa
- of the juice
- vīcayaḥ
- waves
- yathā
- as
- ati
- exceedingly
- madhura
- sweet
- āsvādaḥ
- whose taste
- santōṣō
- (santoṣaḥ) contentment
- dōṣa
- faults
- nāśanaḥ
- which destroys
Meaning
The commentary fills in the faults: hope, abjectness and the like. Nectar pleases for as long as it is tasted. Contentment pleases and also removes what made one need pleasing, the endless hoping and the begging it leads to. That is why it is put above even the drink of the gods.