तस्मादसंभवन्मुक्तेर्मम प्रोत्सार्य युक्तिभिः । अत्यन्तासंभवो यावत् कथयाऽऽत्मविदां वर ॥ २७ ॥
tasmādasaṁbhavanmuktērmama prōtsārya yuktibhiḥ | atyantāsaṁbhavō yāvat kathayā’’tmavidāṁ vara || 27 ||
Translation
So remove, with reasoned arguments, my fear that release is impossible: tell me, best of the knowers of the Self, until the utter impossibility of the seen is clear.
Word by word
- tasmād
- (tasmāt) so
- asaṁbhavan
- (asaṃbhavat) impossible
- muktēr
- (mukteḥ) of release
- mama
- my
- prōtsārya
- remove
- yuktibhiḥ
- with reasoned arguments
- atyanta
- utter
- asaṁbhavō
- (asaṃbhavaḥ) impossibility
- yāvat
- until
- kathaya
- tell (me)
- ātmavidāṁ
- of the knowers of the Self
- vara
- best
Meaning
The commentary: O best of the wise, remove with reasoning the doubt of my release being impossible, and teach me until I firmly know the utter impossibility of the seen. Another commentary: until the utter absence of the seen is fixed in my understanding. Rāma's request asks for argument, yukti, not assurance; and it sets its own measure: "until", yāvat. He does not want to be told that the world is unreal; he wants to see that it is impossible, and he will keep asking until he does. The whole of the long tale that follows answers this one request.