विवेकः परमो दीपो जायते साधुसंगमात् । मनोहरोज्ज्वलो नूनमासेकादिव गुच्छकः ॥ ६ ॥
vivēkaḥ paramō dīpō jāyatē sādhusaṁgamāt | manōharōjjvalō nūnamāsēkādiva gucchakaḥ || 6 ||
Translation
From company with the good arises discrimination, the highest lamp, lovely and bright, as a cluster of blossoms comes surely from watering.
Word by word
- vivēkaḥ
- discrimination
- paramō
- (paramaḥ) the highest
- dīpō
- (dīpaḥ) lamp
- jāyatē
- arises
- sādhu
- with the good
- saṁgamāt
- from company
- manōhara
- lovely
- ujjvalō
- (ujjvalaḥ) bright
- nūnam
- surely
- āsēkād
- from watering
- iva
- as
- gucchakaḥ
- a cluster of blossoms
Meaning
The commentary completes the image: a garden that is watered brings out clusters of flowers and fruit. The gardener does not make the flower. He waters, and it comes. Good company does not hand over discrimination either. It feeds the ground in which discrimination grows by itself.