अक्षोभैकप्रहरणाद्यातुधान्योन्यचेष्टितम् । संरम्भावेक्षणप्रज्ञं रणं स्वप्नमिव स्थितम् ॥ ४८ ॥
akṣōbhaikapraharaṇādyātudhānyōnyacēṣṭitam | saṁrambhāvēkṣaṇaprajñaṁ raṇaṁ svapnamiva sthitam || 48 ||
Translation
"The battle stands like a dream: men who could not stir, struck down by a single blow; deeds done to one another like the illusions of demons; a mind caught up in watching its fury."
Word by word
- akṣōbha
- men who could not stir
- ēka
- a single
- praharaṇād
- (praharaṇāt) struck down by a blow
- yātudhānya
- (yātudhāna) like the illusions of demons
- anyōnya
- to one another
- cēṣṭitam
- deeds done
- saṁrambha
- its fury
- āvēkṣaṇa
- caught up in watching
- prajñaṁ
- a mind
- raṇaṁ
- the battle
- svapnam
- a dream
- iva
- like
- sthitam
- stands
Meaning
The second verse of teaching. The words read two ways, and both commentaries read them so. Of the battle: men struck down by a single blow, behaving like demons, minds fixed on the fury. Of a dream: in a dream nothing is truly cut or split, and the whole of it is undone by one stroke, waking; it is a deception like the magic of demons (yātudhāna); and one's own awareness, absorbed in it, sees it as real. The first commentary: the battle is false like a demon's magic, and the self's awareness sees it only by being absorbed in it. This is the tale of Līlā in one verse: the battle that seems so solid is a dream in a mind.