यथा संवेदनं चेतस्तत्तत्स्पन्दनमृच्छति । तथैव कायश्चलति तथैव फलभोक्तृता ॥ ५ ॥
yathā saṁvēdanaṁ cētastattatspandanamṛcchati | tathaiva kāyaścalati tathaiva phalabhōktṛtā || 5 ||
- Another reading: चेतस्तथा तत्स्पन्दमृच्छति (cētastathā tatspandamṛcchati) for चेतस्तत्तत्स्पन्दनमृच्छति
Translation
As awareness is, so the mind takes on this or that movement; so the body stirs, and so one comes to enjoy the fruit.
Word by word
- yathā
- as
- saṁvēdanaṁ
- awareness
- cētas
- the mind
- tattat
- this or that
- spandanam
- movement
- ṛcchati
- takes on
- tathā
- so
- ēva
- indeed
- kāyaś
- (kāyaḥ) the body
- calati
- stirs
- phala
- the fruit
- bhōktṛtā
- one comes to enjoy
Meaning
The three stages of the last verse are put in order, and a fourth is added: awareness, mind, body, fruit. Each one takes its shape from the one before, as the repeated "so" (tathā) insists. The commentary: as things first show themselves in the witnessing consciousness, so the mind acts; as the mind, so the organs; as the organs, so the body; and as the body acts, so the result. The word phala-bhoktṛtā, being the one who tastes the fruit, closes the chain, and it shows where the work lies. Results cannot be changed at the last link. If the harvest of a life is to be different, what one takes in, what one lets the mind dwell on, must be different first.