यया कयाचिद्युक्त्या तु बोद्धव्यं बोध्यमेव ते । युक्तायुक्तं न पश्यन्ति व्याकुला बोधचञ्चवः ॥ १३ ॥
yayā kayācidyuktyā tu bōddhavyaṁ bōdhyamēva tē | yuktāyuktaṁ na paśyanti vyākulā bōdhacañcavaḥ || 13 ||
Translation
By whatever reasoning it may be, you must know what is to be known. The beak-learned, confused, do not see what is fitting and what is not.
Word by word
- yayā
- by which
- kayācid
- ever
- yuktyā
- reasoning
- tu
- indeed
- bōddhavyaṁ
- must be known
- bōdhyam
- what is to be known
- ēva
- indeed
- tē
- by you
- yukta
- what is fitting
- ayuktaṁ
- and what is not
- na
- not
- paśyanti
- see
- vyākulā
- confused
- bōdha
- learned
- cañcavaḥ
- the beak-
Meaning
The commentary glosses the beak-learned as those of incomplete understanding. Their minds are taken up with refuting others, and so they cannot weigh what is sound against what is unsound. The trouble is not that they know too little but that they use what they know as a weapon, and a mind busy fighting cannot see.