श्रीराम उवाच । परमार्थस्य किं रूपं तस्याऽनन्तचिदाकृतेः । पुनरेतन्ममाऽऽचक्ष्व निपुणं बोधवृद्धये ॥ ३७ ॥
śrīrāma uvāca | paramārthasya kiṁ rūpaṁ tasyā’nantacidākṛtēḥ | punarētanmamā’’cakṣva nipuṇaṁ bōdhavṛddhayē || 37 ||
Translation
Rāma said: What is the form of the real, whose shape is infinite awareness? Tell me this again, precisely, for the growth of my understanding.
Word by word
- parama
- highest
- arthasya
- of the real
- kiṁ
- what
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- tasya
- of that
- ananta
- infinite
- cid
- awareness
- ākṛtēḥ
- whose shape is
- punar
- (punaḥ) again
- ētan
- (etat) this
- mama
- to me
- ācakṣva
- tell
- nipuṇaṁ
- precisely
- bōdha
- of understanding
- vṛddhayē
- for the growth
Meaning
The doubts are cleared, but cleared doubts are not yet knowledge. The commentary: so that in a mind free of doubt that form may be known directly (aparokṣa), Rāma asks again, to recognise it by its own unique marks. He has been told what it is not; now he asks for something to recognise. Bodha is awakening, understanding; he asks for its growth, not for an argument.