श्रीराम उवाच । भगवन् सर्वधर्मज्ञ यत् प्राक्कर्मोपसंचितम् । तद्दैवं दैवमित्युक्तमपमृष्टं कथं त्वया ॥ ११ ॥
śrīrāma uvāca | bhagavan sarvadharmajña yat prākkarmōpasaṁcitam | taddaivaṁ daivamityuktamapamṛṣṭaṁ kathaṁ tvayā || 11 ||
Translation
Śrī Rāma said: Blessed one, knower of every duty, that which has been stored up by past action you have called fate. How then have you wiped it away?
Word by word
- śrīrāma
- Śrī Rāma
- uvāca
- said
- bhagavan
- blessed one
- sarva
- every
- dharmajña
- knower of duty
- yat
- that which
- prāk
- past
- karma
- by action
- upasaṁcitam
- has been stored up
- tad
- (tat) that
- daivaṁ
- fate
- ity
- (iti) as
- uktam
- you have called
- apamṛṣṭaṁ
- wiped away
- kathaṁ
- how
- tvayā
- by you
Meaning
Here is the objection, put with respect and precision. The commentary: Rāma sees that the discourse began by one position and ended in the other. If past action is real and it is what fate means, then fate is real. How has it been erased (apamṛṣṭa)? This is a student at his best. He does not resist the teaching. He holds it to its own words. It is also the reader's question: I can accept that there is no outside fate, but my past is very much here, in my habits and my body. The rest of the sarga answers it.