तमालोक्याऽपरं भर्तुः संसारं गन्तुमादृता । पपात लीला सङ्कल्पदेहेनाऽत्रैव तन्नभः ॥ ४ ॥
tamālōkyā’paraṁ bhartuḥ saṁsāraṁ gantumādṛtā | papāta līlā saṅkalpadēhēnā’traiva tannabhaḥ || 4 ||
Translation
Seeing it, Līlā wished to go to her husband's other world, and in her body of thought she dropped into that very space, right there.
Word by word
- tam
- it
- ālōkya
- seeing
- aparaṁ
- other
- bhartuḥ
- her husband's
- saṁsāraṁ
- world
- gantum
- to go
- ādṛtā
- wishing
- papāta
- she dropped
- līlā
- Līlā
- saṅkalpa
- of thought
- dēhēna
- in her body
- atra
- right there
- ēva
- very
- tat
- that
- nabhaḥ
- space
Meaning
Padma, after death, lives on as King Vidūratha in a world of his own fancy, and that world is in the space of this very room (3.17–3.18). Līlā need not go anywhere to find it. "In her body of thought" (saṅkalpadeha): her physical body stays seated by the corpse; what enters the other world is the mind, clothed in the body it imagines. She "drops" into that space as one drops into a dream.