Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Janaka (अध्याय १३) / 13.4
13.4
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धभावा देहस्थयोगिनः ।
संयोगायोगविरहादहमासे यथासुखम् karmanaiṣkarmyanirbandhabhāvā dehasthayoginaḥ |
saṃyogāyogavirahād aham āse yathāsukham
The line
The states of being tied to action and to not acting belong to the yogin who stays in the body. From the absence of joining and of not joining, I sit at ease.
नेपालीमा
कर्म र नैष्कर्म्यमा बाँधिने भाव देहमा रहेको योगीका हुन्। संयोग र अयोगको अभावबाट म सुखसँग बस्छु।
Where it sits
Janaka is still speaking. Doing and not doing are named as states of the embodied yogin, then left.
Split: karmanaiṣkarmyanirbandhabhāvāḥ (कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धभावाः) + dehasthayoginaḥ (देहस्थयोगिनः) + saṃyogāyogavirahāt (संयोगायोगविरहात्) + aham (अहम्) + āse (आसे) + yathā (यथा) + sukham (सुखम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| karmanaiṣkarmyanirbandhabhāvāḥ (कर्मनैष्कर्म्यनिर्बन्धभावाः) | nominative plural, masculine | the states of being tied to action and to not acting. Read from bhāvāḥ (भावाः). Recited bhāvā (भावा) before deha (देह), the visarga dropped. |
| dehasthayoginaḥ (देहस्थयोगिनः) | genitive singular, masculine | of the yogin who stays in the body. Read from yoginaḥ (योगिनः). |
| saṃyogāyogavirahāt (संयोगायोगविरहात्) | ablative singular, masculine | from the absence of joining and of not joining. Read from virahāt (विरहात्). Recited virahād (विरहाद्) before aham (अहम्). |
| aham (अहम्) | nominative singular | I. |
| āse (आसे) | present first person singular | I sit. |
| yathā (यथा) | indeclinable | in the way that. |
| sukham (सुखम्) | accusative singular, neuter | ease. |
The phrases
bhāvāḥ (भावाः) belong to dehasthayoginaḥ (देहस्थयोगिनः). A new clause: saṃyogāyogavirahāt (संयोगायोगविरहात्) is why aham (अहम्) āse (आसे), manner yathā (यथा) sukham (सुखम्).
Sanskrit in this line
bhāvāḥ (भावाः) before the voiced d (द्) of deha (देह) drops the visarga. saṃyoga (संयोग) plus ayoga (अयोग) plus virahāt (विरहात्) is saṃyogāyogavirahāt (संयोगायोगविरहात्), and virahāt (विरहात्) before aham (अहम्) is virahād (विरहाद्), the consonant taking the vowel. aham (अहम्) plus āse (आसे) joins m (म्) to ā (आ).
Say it back
Whose are the ties to action and to not acting, and from the absence of what does he sit?