ननु राघव लोकस्य कस्यचित्किंचिदेव हि । दैवमाकाशरूपं हि करोति न करोति च ॥ ७ ॥
nanu rāghava lōkasya kasyacitkiṁcidēva hi | daivamākāśarūpaṁ hi karōti na karōti ca || 7 ||
Translation
Yet surely, Rāghava, for some person or other in the world, fate, which is like empty space, does something and does not.
Word by word
- nanu
- yet surely
- rāghava
- Rāghava
- lōkasya
- in the world
- kasyacit
- for some person
- kiṁcid
- (kiñcit) something
- ēva
- or other
- hi
- for
- daivam
- fate
- ākāśa
- empty space
- rūpaṁ
- like
- karōti
- does
- na
- not
- ca
- and
Meaning
An ironic turn. A person may say that fate did this or that. Another commentary gives the comparison: people by error give to empty space a blue colour, though for one who discerns it remains empty. The sky has no colour to paint on the day. In the same way fate, being like space (ākāśa-rūpa), "does" things only for one who sees it doing them, and for another does nothing. So the same event, a lost job, say, is one person's doom and another's opening. The difference lies in the seer. The Yoga Vāsiṣṭha will return many times to this image of the sky's unreal blue.