यदस्ति तस्य नाशोऽस्ति न कदाचन राघव । तस्मात् तन्नष्टमप्यन्तर्बीजभूतं भवेद्धृदि ॥ ६२ ॥
yadasti tasya nāśō’sti na kadācana rāghava | tasmāt tannaṣṭamapyantarbījabhūtaṁ bhavēddhṛdi || 62 ||
Translation
What is, Rāghava, never perishes; so, even if it were destroyed, it would remain within the heart as a seed.
Word by word
- yad
- (yat) what
- asti
- is
- tasya
- its
- nāśō
- (nāśaḥ) perishing
- na
- not
- kadācana
- never
- rāghava
- Rāghava
- tasmāt
- so
- tan
- (tat) it
- naṣṭam
- destroyed
- api
- even if
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- bīja
- a seed
- bhūtaṁ
- as
- bhavēd
- (bhavet) would remain
- hṛdi
- in the heart
Meaning
Vasiṣṭha accepts Rāma's principle and draws its consequence. The commentary names the view he is refuting: pariṇāma-vāda, the doctrine that the world is a real transformation of a real cause. On that view earlier states are only hidden by later ones, never destroyed; so a world that seemed to end would still lie in the mind, or in nature, as seed.