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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.10.52

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
73
Verses
2878
Level
intermediate

Sarga 10 · Verse 52

Verse 52

मनः स्वप्नेन्द्रियैर्मुक्तं यद्रूपं स्यान्महाचितेः । जङ्गमे स्थावरे वाऽपि तत्सर्वान्तेऽवशिष्यते ॥ ५२ ॥

manaḥ svapnēndriyairmuktaṁ yadrūpaṁ syānmahācitēḥ | jaṅgamē sthāvarē vā’pi tatsarvāntē’vaśiṣyatē || 52 ||

Translation

The mind freed from dream and from the senses: that form, which is great awareness's, remains when all has ended, in the moving and the unmoving alike.

Word by word

manaḥ
the mind
svapna
from dream
indriyair
(indriyaiḥ) and from the senses
muktaṁ
freed
yad
(yat) which
rūpaṁ
form
syān
(syāt) is
mahā
great
citēḥ
awareness's
jaṅgamē
in the moving
sthāvarē
in the unmoving
vā
or
api
alike
tat
that
sarva
all
antē
when (it) has ended
avaśiṣyatē
remains

Meaning

The thirteenth pointer. The commentary: the mind freed from dream and from waking (the senses), the mind as it is in deep sleep, is the form of great awareness; it remains in moving and unmoving things when the seen has dissolved. The two states in which the mind runs, waking through the senses and dreaming on its own, both stop; and what is then, in every creature and in every stone, is the same.