यच्छतीयं विपर्यासं भूरिभूतपरम्परा । बीजराशिरिवाऽजस्रं पूर्यमाणः पुनः पुनः ॥ ३४ ॥
yacchatīyaṁ viparyāsaṁ bhūribhūtaparamparā | bījarāśirivā’jasraṁ pūryamāṇaḥ punaḥ punaḥ || 34 ||
Translation
This long line of beings falls into disorder, like a heap of grain filled again and again without pause.
Word by word
- yacchati
- falls into
- iyaṁ
- this
- viparyāsaṁ
- disorder
- bhūri
- long
- bhūta
- of beings
- paramparā
- line
- bīja
- of grain
- rāśir
- (rāśiḥ) a heap
- iva
- like
- ajasraṁ
- without pause
- pūryamāṇaḥ
- filled
- punaḥ
- again; and again
Meaning
An image from the marketplace. A heap of grain (bīja-rāśi) being weighed is filled, emptied and filled again and again; the grains never keep their order, the top ones go to the bottom. The commentary: so the multitude of beings takes a reversed order and arrangement compared with the previous birth. What was high is low, what was low is high. No being keeps its place across lives. The reader may find in the image a reason for humility: the positions of this life are not permanent ranks.