नाऽनुभूतेऽनुभूतत्वं संविदन्तरुदेत्यपि । स्वप्नभ्रमादावन्यस्मिन्पितरीव पितुः स्मृतिः ॥ ७ ॥
nā’nubhūtē’nubhūtatvaṁ saṁvidantarudētyapi | svapnabhramādāvanyasminpitarīva pituḥ smṛtiḥ || 7 ||
Translation
Awareness of having lived something arises within even about what was never lived, as in a dream-error and the like one remembers another man as one's father.
Word by word
- na
- not
- anubhūtē
- about what was lived
- anubhūtatvaṁ
- having lived
- saṁvid
- awareness
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- udētya
- (udeti) arises
- api
- even
- svapna
- dream
- bhrama
- error
- ādāv
- (ādau) and the like
- anyasmin
- about another
- pitari
- as father
- iva
- as
- pituḥ
- of a father
- smṛtiḥ
- memory
Meaning
A second example of false memory. In a dream, or in any confusion, one may meet a stranger and know him at once as one's own father, with all the feeling of long acquaintance. The sense "I have known this" is produced within awareness and does not need an object that was really known.