संकल्पनगरं सत्यं यथासङ्कल्पितं प्रति । सदेहं वा विदेहं वा नेतरं प्रति किञ्चन ॥ ४५ ॥
saṁkalpanagaraṁ satyaṁ yathāsaṅkalpitaṁ prati | sadēhaṁ vā vidēhaṁ vā nētaraṁ prati kiñcana || 45 ||
Translation
A city of fancy is real for the one who fancied it, be he with a body or without; for no one else is it real at all.
Word by word
- saṁkalpa
- of fancy
- nagaraṁ
- a city
- satyaṁ
- real
- yathā
- for
- saṅkalpitaṁ
- the one who fancied it
- prati
- for
- sa
- with
- dēhaṁ
- a body
- vā
- or
- vidēhaṁ
- without
- na
- not
- itaraṁ
- anyone else
- kiñcana
- at all
Meaning
The commentary: a city of fancy is real for the use of the one who imagines it, able to serve his dealings; it is not real for any other dealing, with a body or without. Each one's world is real to that one alone; it is not a public place that others can enter by the road.