तस्मात् पुरुषयत्नेन मुख्यमौषधमाहरेत् । सच्छास्त्रसज्जनासङ्गौ संसृतिव्याधिनाशिनौ ॥ १३ ॥
tasmāt puruṣayatnēna mukhyamauṣadhamāharēt | sacchāstrasajjanāsaṅgau saṁsṛtivyādhināśinau || 13 ||
Translation
Therefore, by human effort, one should take the chief medicine: true scripture and the company of the good, the two that destroy the sickness of saṁsāra.
Word by word
- tasmāt
- therefore
- puruṣa
- human
- yatnēna
- by effort
- mukhyam
- the chief
- auṣadham
- medicine
- āharēt
- one should take
- sacchāstra
- true scripture
- sajjana
- of the good
- āsaṅgau
- the company
- saṁsṛti
- of saṁsāra
- vyādhi
- the sickness
- nāśinau
- the two that destroy
Meaning
Saṁsāra is a sickness, and the medicine is named: the study of true scripture and the company of the good, which the commentary calls the chief remedy, by which the illness of worldly life is cured. A medicine has to be taken; that is the effort (puruṣa-yatna). No one else can take it for us.