श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । अस्य दृश्यपिशाचस्य शान्त्यै मन्त्रमिमं शृणु । रामाऽत्यन्तमयं येन मृतिमेष्यति नङ्क्ष्यति ॥ ६१ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | asya dṛśyapiśācasya śāntyai mantramimaṁ śṛṇu | rāmā’tyantamayaṁ yēna mṛtimēṣyati naṅkṣyati || 61 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: "Hear this mantra for the quieting of this ghoul of the seen, Rāma, by which it will die utterly and vanish.
Word by word
- asya
- this
- dṛśya
- of the seen
- piśācasya
- of ghoul
- śāntyai
- for the quieting
- mantram
- mantra
- imaṁ
- this
- śṛṇu
- hear
- rāma
- Rāma
- atyantam
- utterly
- ayaṁ
- it
- yēna
- by which
- mṛtim
- die
- ēṣyati
- will
- naṅkṣyati
- will vanish
Meaning
A ghoul is laid by a mantra, and Vasiṣṭha offers one: not a sound to repeat but a truth to understand. The commentary reads the two verbs: what is taken as conscious, the body and the rest, will die; what is taken as unconscious, the inner organ and the rest, will vanish.