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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.21.79

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
88
Verses
3571
Level
intermediate

Sarga 21 · Verse 79

Verse 79

विगतकलनकालिमाकलङ्का गगनकलान्तरनिर्मलाम्बनेन । सकलकलनकार्यकारणान्तः कतिपयकालवशाद् भविष्यसीति ॥ ७९ ॥

vigatakalanakālimākalaṅkā gaganakalāntaranirmalāmbanēna | sakalakalanakāryakāraṇāntaḥ katipayakālavaśād bhaviṣyasīti || 79 ||

Translation

Then, by holding to what lies within the sky's portion, stainless, you will in a little while be one from whom the stain of the blackness of imagining is gone, the end of all imagining, of all cause and effect.

Word by word

vigata
gone
kalana
of imagining
kālimā
of the blackness
kalaṅkā
from whom the stain
gagana
of the sky
kalā
portion
antara
within
nirmala
stainless
ambanēna
by holding to
sakala
of all
kārya
effect
kāraṇa
and cause
antaḥ
the end
katipaya
a little
kāla
while
vaśād
(vaśāt) in
bhaviṣyasi
you will be
iti
thus

Meaning

The sarga ends in a puṣpitāgrā verse. The commentary: as nirvikalpa samādhi grows steady, in a little while, by holding to the stainless Self, the ground of the space of māyā and of all its works, you will be free of the stain of the blackness of erroneous knowing, and become release itself, the end, the furthest limit of sublation, of all beings' errors, of their tendencies and of the ignorance that causes them.