स्थातव्यं नेह भोगेषु विवेकरहितात्मना । उपलोदरसंजातपरिपीनान्धभेकवत् ॥ ६ ॥
sthātavyaṁ nēha bhōgēṣu vivēkarahitātmanā | upalōdarasaṁjātaparipīnāndhabhēkavat || 6 ||
Translation
Here one must not dwell among pleasures with a mind void of discernment, like the fat blind frog born inside a rock.
Word by word
- sthātavyaṁ
- one must dwell
- na
- not
- iha
- here
- bhōgēṣu
- among pleasures
- vivēka
- discernment
- rahita
- void of
- ātmanā
- with a mind
- upala
- a rock
- udara
- inside
- saṁjāta
- born
- paripīna
- fat
- andha
- blind
- bhēka
- frog
- vat
- like
Meaning
A turn from method to urgency. The commentary says Vasiṣṭha now uses an illustration from the things that are not the Self to set Rāma moving toward peace. The image is of a frog sealed inside a stone, grown fat in the dark, content because it has never seen anything else. That is a life spent in pleasures without discernment: comfortable and blind, and with no way out because it does not know it is enclosed.