अक्लेशेनैव ते तस्मान्निर्गते गगनादिव । निश्चयस्थं हि यद्वस्तु तद्वज्रगुरु नेतरत् ॥ ५४ ॥
aklēśēnaiva tē tasmānnirgatē gaganādiva | niścayasthaṁ hi yadvastu tadvajraguru nētarat || 54 ||
Translation
Without any trouble they went out of it, as if out of the open sky. For what one holds firmly to be real is heavy as diamond; nothing else is.
Word by word
- aklēśēna
- without trouble
- ēva
- any
- tē
- they
- tasmān
- (tasmāt) out of it
- nirgatē
- went out
- gaganād
- (gaganāt) out of the open sky
- iva
- as if
- niścaya
- firmly to be real
- sthaṁ
- what one holds
- hi
- for
- yad
- (yat) what
- vastu
- thing
- tad
- (tat) that
- vajra
- as diamond
- guru
- heavy
- na
- not
- itarat
- anything else
Meaning
This answers Rāma's question at the start of the last sarga: how did they pass through a wall hard as diamond? Hardness is not in the wall; it is in the conviction (niścaya) that it is real. Another commentary: whatever one is certain is real seems heavy and hard as diamond; what is known to be false offers no resistance. Līlā no longer holds the shell to be real, so for her it is sky. The same holds for every wall in a life: what binds is the firmness with which we take it to be solid.