परप्रकाशरूपोऽपि परमान्ध्यमिवाऽऽगतः । रुद्धसंसृतिदुर्लीलः प्रक्षीणाशाविषूचिकः ॥ ४७ ॥
paraprakāśarūpō’pi paramāndhyamivā’’gataḥ | ruddhasaṁsṛtidurlīlaḥ prakṣīṇāśāviṣūcikaḥ || 47 ||
Translation
though his form is the highest light, as if he had come to the deepest blindness; the wicked play of saṁsāra stopped, the cholera of hope wasted away;
Word by word
- para
- the highest
- prakāśa
- light
- rūpō
- (rūpaḥ) his form
- api
- though
- parama
- the deepest
- āndhyam
- blindness
- iva
- as if
- āgataḥ
- he had come to
- ruddha
- stopped
- saṁsṛti
- of saṁsāra
- durlīlaḥ
- the wicked play
- prakṣīṇa
- wasted away
- āśā
- of hope
- viṣūcikaḥ
- the cholera
Meaning
The same paradox, continued. Seen from outside he may seem to see nothing, because he takes nothing for real. The commentary: the evil games of birth and death in him are stopped, and the cholera of hope is gone. Hope is called a disease of the gut, one that empties a person from inside.