पुनस्तत्रैव जन्मेहामरणाद्यनुभूतिमान् । परं लोकं कल्पयति मृतस्तत्र तथा पुनः ॥ १५ ॥
punastatraiva janmēhāmaraṇādyanubhūtimān | paraṁ lōkaṁ kalpayati mṛtastatra tathā punaḥ || 15 ||
Translation
Again, in that same place, having the experience of birth, activity, death and the rest, he imagines another world; dying there, again the same.
Word by word
- punas
- (punaḥ) again
- tatra
- in that; there
- ēva
- same place
- janma
- birth
- īhā
- activity
- maraṇa
- death
- ādy
- (ādi) and the rest
- anubhūtimān
- having the experience
- paraṁ
- another
- lōkaṁ
- world
- kalpayati
- he imagines
- mṛtas
- (mṛtaḥ) dying
- tathā
- the same
- punaḥ
- again
Meaning
The cycle continues. In that same space the soul experiences birth, life's activity (īhā), death and so on, and dying there imagines a further world, and again and again. The commentary: the soul, experiencing everything from birth to death, imagines this world in it, and after death imagines the next. Saṃsāra, the round of rebirth, is presented not as travel from place to place but as one dream giving way to another, each made of the impressions of the last.