मोक्षोपायावबोधेन शुद्धान्तःकरणं जनम् । न खेदयति भोगौघो न चाऽऽनन्दयति क्वचित् ॥ २८ ॥
mōkṣōpāyāvabōdhēna śuddhāntaḥkaraṇaṁ janam | na khēdayati bhōgaughō na cā’’nandayati kvacit || 28 ||
Translation
A person whose inner being is purified by understanding the Means to Liberation is neither troubled nor ever delighted by the flood of pleasures.
Word by word
- mōkṣōpāya
- the Means to Liberation
- avabōdhēna
- by understanding
- śuddha
- is purified
- antaḥkaraṇaṁ
- whose inner being
- janam
- a person
- na
- neither
- khēdayati
- troubles
- bhōga
- of pleasures
- ōghō
- (oghaḥ) the flood
- ca
- nor
- ānandayati
- delights
- kvacit
- ever
Meaning
Mokṣopāya is the work's own name, given at 2.17.6. Both trouble and delight from pleasure are named: he is not harmed by enjoying, and not made happy by it either. The pleasures still come, and they no longer decide his state.