तवाऽभ्यासं विना बाले नाऽऽकारो ब्रह्मतां गतः । स्थितः कलनरूपात्मा तेन तन्नाऽनुपश्यसि ॥ ४२ ॥
tavā’bhyāsaṁ vinā bālē nā’’kārō brahmatāṁ gataḥ | sthitaḥ kalanarūpātmā tēna tannā’nupaśyasi || 42 ||
Translation
Without practice, child, your form has not become Brahman; it stands as a self made of imagining, and so you do not see that.
Word by word
- tava
- your
- abhyāsaṁ
- practice
- vinā
- without
- bālē
- child
- na
- not
- ākārō
- (ākāraḥ) form
- brahmatāṁ
- Brahman
- gataḥ
- has become
- sthitaḥ
- it stands
- kalana
- imagining
- rūpa
- made of
- ātmā
- a self
- tēna
- so
- tan
- (tat) that
- anupaśyasi
- you see
Meaning
Another commentary: without practice your form has not reached the nature of Brahman; it stands in the inner sense as a reflection of awareness, and so you do not see that mountain village. Līlā's body is held as what she imagines it to be, a thing of flesh; and a thing of flesh cannot see a world that is made of awareness.