एवं मृता म्रियन्ते च मरिष्यन्ति च कोटयः । भूतानां यां जगन्त्याशामुदितानि पृथक् पृथक् ॥ १० ॥
ēvaṁ mṛtā mriyantē ca mariṣyanti ca kōṭayaḥ | bhūtānāṁ yāṁ jagantyāśāmuditāni pṛthak pṛthak || 10 ||
Translation
So millions of beings have died, die, and will die; and the hopes of each have risen as worlds, each apart.
Word by word
- ēvaṁ
- so
- mṛtā
- (mṛtāḥ) have died
- mriyantē
- die
- ca
- and
- mariṣyanti
- will die
- kōṭayaḥ
- millions
- bhūtānāṁ
- of beings
- yāṁ
- which
- jaganty
- (jaganti) as worlds
- āśām
- the hopes
- uditāni
- have risen
- pṛthak
- apart; each
Meaning
The general rule. Beings without number have died, are dying, will die; and for each, the world that rises is made of its own hopes (āśā), separately (pṛthak pṛthak). The commentary: whatever the living have seen, the scene in which their latent impression takes root rises in the space of their heart at death, and after death they come to that very world. It quotes the Gītā: "whatever state one remembers at the end, leaving the body, to that one goes." In short, the commentary says, the whole world is nothing but the play of particular latent desires. There are as many worlds as there are minds. The reader may see the present application: the world one will meet is being shaped now, by what one hopes for.