दारिद्र्यं मरणं दुःखमित्यादिविषयो भ्रमः । संप्रशाम्यत्यशेषेण साधुसंगमभेषजैः ॥ १७ ॥
dāridryaṁ maraṇaṁ duḥkhamityādiviṣayō bhramaḥ | saṁpraśāmyatyaśēṣēṇa sādhusaṁgamabhēṣajaiḥ || 17 ||
Translation
The delusion that takes the form of poverty, death, sorrow and the rest is wholly cured by the medicines of company with the good.
Word by word
- dāridryaṁ
- poverty
- maraṇaṁ
- death
- duḥkham
- sorrow
- iti
- and
- ādi
- the rest
- viṣayō
- (viṣayaḥ) that takes the form of
- bhramaḥ
- the delusion
- saṁpraśāmyati
- is cured
- aśēṣēṇa
- wholly
- sādhu
- with the good
- saṁgama
- of company
- bhēṣajaiḥ
- by the medicines
Meaning
The commentary calls it a sannipāta, the fever in which all three humours are disordered at once and which is hardest to treat. Poverty, death and sorrow are not called illusions; the delusion is the suffering built on them. That is what good company cures, and it cures it wholly, aśeṣeṇa.