श्रीराम उवाच । एवमेतत्कथं ब्रह्मन्नेकजीवेच्छयाऽखिलाः । जगज्जीवा न युज्यन्ते महाजीवैकतावशात् ॥ २८ ॥
śrīrāma uvāca | ēvamētatkathaṁ brahmannēkajīvēcchayā’khilāḥ | jagajjīvā na yujyantē mahājīvaikatāvaśāt || 28 ||
Translation
Rāma said: If this is so, O Brahman, why are not all the jīvas of the world joined to the will of one jīva, through their oneness with the great jīva?
Word by word
- ēvam
- so
- ētat
- this
- kathaṁ
- why
- brahman
- O Brahman
- ēka
- of one
- jīva
- jīva
- icchayā
- to the will
- akhilāḥ
- all
- jagaj
- (jagat) of the world
- jīvā
- (jīvāḥ) jīvas
- na
- not
- yujyantē
- are joined
- mahā
- great
- ēkatā
- oneness
- vaśāt
- through
Meaning
The commentary: Rāma accepts what Vasiṣṭha said, and raises a doubt: if the individual and the whole are one, then as the will of the whole is unfailing, the will of each individual, being a property of the whole, would be unfailing too; there would be no law that one shall enjoy and another be freed, for whatever anyone willed would happen. Why, then, is the will of all beings not like the will of one, since the great jīva is one?