श्रीदेव्युवाच यथा स्वप्नपरिज्ञानात् स्वप्नदेहो न वास्तवः । अनुभूतोऽप्ययं तद्वद्वासनातानवादसन् ॥ १ ॥
śrīdēvyuvāca yathā svapnaparijñānāt svapnadēhō na vāstavaḥ | anubhūtō’pyayaṁ tadvadvāsanātānavādasan || 1 ||
Translation
The goddess said: As, through knowing a dream for a dream, the dream body is not real, so this body too, though it is lived, is unreal, through the thinning of the latent tendencies.
Word by word
- yathā
- as
- svapna
- a dream
- parijñānāt
- through knowing
- dēhō
- (dehaḥ) body
- na
- not
- vāstavaḥ
- real
- anubhūtō
- (anubhūtaḥ) lived
- api
- though
- ayaṁ
- this
- tadvad
- (tadvat) so
- vāsanā
- of the latent tendencies
- tānavād
- (tānavāt) through the thinning
- asan
- unreal
Meaning
The commentary: though in dreaming one experiences a dream body, once it is known as a dream that body is no longer real, it is found to be false; so this gross body, though first experienced, becomes unreal, sublated, when the tendencies wear away. The goddess answers Līlā's question from the last sarga about what becomes of this body. Being experienced does not make a thing real; the dream body was experienced too.