भवबहुलनिशानितान्तनिद्रा- सततविवेकविबोधवारिसेकैः । प्रगलति हिमशीतलैरशेषा शरदि महामिहिकेव चेतसीति ॥ ३२ ॥
bhavabahulaniśānitāntanidrā- satatavivēkavibōdhavārisēkaiḥ | pragalati himaśītalairaśēṣā śaradi mahāmihikēva cētasīti || 32 ||
Translation
The sleep, deep and long, of the dense night of becoming melts away entirely in the mind under the ice-cool sprinklings of the water of unbroken discernment and knowing, like a great mist in autumn.
Word by word
- bhava
- of becoming
- bahula
- dense
- niśā
- of the night
- nitānta
- deep and long
- nidrā
- the sleep
- satata
- unbroken
- vivēka
- of discernment
- vibōdha
- and knowing
- vāri
- of the water
- sēkaiḥ
- under the sprinklings
- pragalati
- melts away
- hima
- ice
- śītalair
- (śītalaiḥ) cool
- aśēṣā
- entirely
- śaradi
- in autumn
- mahā
- great
- mihikā
- mist
- iva
- like
- cētasi
- in the mind
- iti
- thus
Meaning
A puṣpitāgrā verse. Another commentary: by the steady sprinkling of the water of discernment and knowing, cool as ice because it ends all heat, the great sleep of ignorance in the night of becoming is destroyed, as the great mists are in autumn. Mist is not driven off; it thins in the clear air of the season until nothing is left. So the sleep of ignorance goes, not by force, but by the steady presence of discernment.