Sacred Texts
Yoga Vāsiṣṭha cover

॥ श्री ॥vedantaFor reading

Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 2.17.39

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
73
Verses
2878
Level
intermediate

Sarga 17 · Verse 39

Verse 39

सर्वर्तुमदनुत्पन्नवनस्पन्दाऽस्फुटाकृतिः । भाविपुष्पवनाकारवसन्तरसरञ्जना ॥ ३९ ॥

sarvartumadanutpannavanaspandā’sphuṭākṛtiḥ | bhāvipuṣpavanākāravasantarasarañjanā || 39 ||

Translation

like the faint stirring of a forest not yet arisen, full of every season, coloured by the joy of spring in the shape of a flower-forest still to come,

Word by word

sarva
every
ṛtumat
full of seasons
anutpanna
not yet arisen
vana
of a forest; forest
spanda
the stirring
asphuṭa
faint
ākṛtiḥ
in shape
bhāvi
still to come
puṣpa
flower
ākāra
in the shape of
vasanta
of spring
rasa
by the joy
rañjanā
coloured

Meaning

A forest that does not yet exist, imagined with all its seasons and its spring flowers. The commentary takes it as the indistinct form of such a forest. The image is gentle: what is left of the world for the one at peace is like a pleasant thought of something that is not.