श्रीराम उवाच । तयाऽस्य लीलया मात्रा पुत्रस्य ज्येष्ठशर्मणः । कस्मान्न दर्शनं दत्तं मोहं तावन्निराकुरु ॥ ४३ ॥
śrīrāma uvāca | tayā’sya līlayā mātrā putrasya jyēṣṭhaśarmaṇaḥ | kasmānna darśanaṁ dattaṁ mōhaṁ tāvannirākuru || 43 ||
Translation
Rāma said: Why did Līlā not show herself as mother to her son Jyeṣṭhaśarman? Clear away my confusion in this.
Word by word
- tayā
- by her
- asya
- to her
- līlayā
- Līlā
- mātrā
- as mother
- putrasya
- son
- jyēṣṭhaśarmaṇaḥ
- Jyeṣṭhaśarman
- kasmān
- (kasmāt) why
- na
- not
- darśanaṁ
- herself
- dattaṁ
- did show
- mōhaṁ
- my confusion
- tāvan
- (tāvat) in this
- nirākuru
- clear away
Meaning
Rāma's question is the reader's. Līlā could take any form; why not her own, and comfort her son as his mother? The commentary prepares the answer: Līlā came to test the teaching that the world is false, not out of love for a son; for one who knows the world is false, where is the attachment of a son? With the root ignorance sublated, she had no reason to take her former body.