मनश्चित्तं वासना च कर्म दैवं च निश्चयः । राम दुर्निश्चयस्यैताः संज्ञाः सद्भिरुदाहृताः ॥ २० ॥
manaścittaṁ vāsanā ca karma daivaṁ ca niścayaḥ | rāma durniścayasyaitāḥ saṁjñāḥ sadbhirudāhṛtāḥ || 20 ||
Translation
Mind, thought, tendency, action, fate and resolve, Rāma: these are names, given by the good, for what is hard to define.
Word by word
- manaś
- (manaḥ) mind
- cittaṁ
- thought
- vāsanā
- tendency
- ca
- and
- karma
- action
- daivaṁ
- fate
- niścayaḥ
- resolve
- rāma
- Rāma
- durniścayasya
- for what is hard to define
- ētāḥ
- these
- saṁjñāḥ
- are names
- sadbhir
- (sadbhiḥ) by the good
- udāhṛtāḥ
- given
Meaning
One thing with many names. How can what we have called unreal have any working power? The commentary answers by pointing to the Upaniṣad's list of names for the heart and mind, and calls the mind indefinable, neither simply real nor simply unreal. Durniścaya, "hard to pin down", is exact. Anyone who has tried to find the mind knows this. It is there when not looked for and absent when sought. Yet all that goes by these six names is a single stuff, and that simplifies the work. One is not facing six enemies.