सकलकारणकार्यविवर्जितं निजविकल्पबलादुपकल्पितम् । तदनपेक्ष्य हि दैवमसन्मयं श्रय शुभाशय पौरुषमात्मनः ॥ ३९ ॥
sakalakāraṇakāryavivarjitaṁ nijavikalpabalādupakalpitam | tadanapēkṣya hi daivamasanmayaṁ śraya śubhāśaya pauruṣamātmanaḥ || 39 ||
Translation
That fate is without any cause or effect, fashioned by the force of one's own imagining. Pay no heed to it, for it is unreal, and rely, pure-hearted one, on your own effort.
Word by word
- sakala
- any
- kāraṇa
- cause
- kārya
- or effect
- vivarjitaṁ
- without
- nija
- one's own
- vikalpa
- imagining
- balād
- (balāt) by the force
- upakalpitam
- fashioned
- tad
- (tat) that
- anapēkṣya
- pay no heed
- hi
- for
- daivam
- fate
- asanmayaṁ
- unreal
- śraya
- rely
- śubhāśaya
- pure-hearted one
- pauruṣam
- on effort
- ātmanaḥ
- your own
Meaning
The metre changes (drutavilambita), as it does when a sarga is drawing to its close, and Vasiṣṭha now turns to Rāma in the second person. The verdict on fate as an independent power is given in three words. It has no cause or effect (kāraṇa-kārya-vivarjita): nothing brings it about and nothing follows from it, and the commentary reads "without any reason or purpose". It is imagined (vikalpa-upakalpita), the product of one's own fancy. And so it is unreal (asan-maya). The word "rely" (śraya) is the turning point: everyone relies on something, and the choice is only on what. Rāma is called śubhāśaya, "pure-hearted". The teacher does not address the discouraged young man of the Vairāgya Prakaraṇa as a defeated person. He speaks to the best in him, and that too is a way of helping someone to rise.