भाविवारिविलासात्मा तद्बीजं रसशाखिनः । अन्योन्यस्वदने तस्मात्संसारः प्रसरिष्यति ॥ २३ ॥
bhāvivārivilāsātmā tadbījaṁ rasaśākhinaḥ | anyōnyasvadanē tasmātsaṁsāraḥ prasariṣyati || 23 ||
Translation
Its self the play of the waters to come, it is the seed of the tree of taste; from it, in the tasting of one another, the world of wandering will spread.
Word by word
- bhāvi
- to come
- vāri
- of the waters
- vilāsa
- the play
- ātmā
- its self
- tad
- (tat) it
- bījaṁ
- the seed
- rasa
- of taste
- śākhinaḥ
- of the tree
- anyōnya
- of one another
- svadanē
- in the tasting
- tasmāt
- from it
- saṁsāraḥ
- the world of wandering
- prasariṣyati
- will spread
Meaning
The commentary: that is the seed of the tree of taste and takes on the many shapes of the waters to come. When sense and object taste each other as taste, attachment and the rest arise, and again and again there is the urge to gain objects: in that form the world of wandering spreads from it. Another commentary: the seed of the tree of taste, whose body is the play of water as ocean and the rest. Here the account turns from the cosmic to the personal: taste is where craving begins, the senses savouring their objects and returning to them.