Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १८) / 18.63
18.63
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
भावनाभावनासक्ता दृष्टिर् मूढस्य सर्वदा ।
भाव्यभावनया सा तु स्वस्थस्यादृष्टिरूपिणी bhāvanābhāvanāsaktā dṛṣṭir mūḍhasya sarvadā |
bhāvyabhāvanayā sā tu svasthasyādṛṣṭirūpiṇī
The line
The dull one's seeing is always stuck to imagining and to not imagining. For the one settled in himself, that seeing, by the imagining of what is to be imagined, has the form of not seeing.
नेपालीमा
मूर्खको दृष्टि सधैँ भावना र अभावनामा टाँसिएको हुन्छ। आफूमा स्थिर भएकोको त्यो दृष्टि चाहिँ भाव्यको भावनाले नदेख्ने रूप लिन्छ।
Where it sits
Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) is still speaking, and he moves from dispassion among possessions to the dull one's seeing.
Split: bhāvanābhāvanāsaktā (भावनाभावनासक्ता) + dṛṣṭiḥ (दृष्टिः) + mūḍhasya (मूढस्य) + sarvadā (सर्वदा) + bhāvyabhāvanayā (भाव्यभावनया) + sā (सा) + tu (तु) + svasthasya (स्वस्थस्य) + adṛṣṭirūpiṇī (अदृष्टिरूपिणी)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| bhāvanābhāvanāsaktā (भावनाभावनासक्ता) | nominative singular, feminine | stuck to imagining and to not imagining. saktā (सक्ता) is stuck. bhāvanā (भावना) is imagining. abhāvanā (अभावना) is not imagining. Agrees with dṛṣṭiḥ (दृष्टिः). |
| dṛṣṭiḥ (दृष्टिः) | nominative singular, feminine | seeing. Recited dṛṣṭir (दृष्टिर्) before m (म्). |
| mūḍhasya (मूढस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of the dull one. |
| sarvadā (सर्वदा) | indeclinable | always. |
| bhāvyabhāvanayā (भाव्यभावनया) | instrumental singular, feminine | by the imagining of what is to be brought about. bhāvya (भाव्य) is what is to be imagined. bhāvanā (भावना) is the imagining. |
| sā (सा) | nominative singular, feminine | that, the seeing just named. |
| tu (तु) | indeclinable | but. |
| svasthasya (स्वस्थस्य) | genitive singular, masculine | of the one settled in himself. Recited with ā (आ) before adṛṣṭi (अदृष्टि). |
| adṛṣṭirūpiṇī (अदृष्टिरूपिणी) | nominative singular, feminine | having the form of not seeing. rūpiṇī (रूपिणी) has that form. adṛṣṭi (अदृष्टि) is not seeing. Agrees with sā (सा). |
The phrases
dṛṣṭiḥ (दृष्टिः) of the mūḍha (मूढ) is saktā (सक्ता), and sarvadā (सर्वदा) covers both imaginings. sā (सा) picks up that seeing. tu (तु) turns it to the svastha (स्वस्थ). bhāvyabhāvanayā (भाव्यभावनया) is the means, and adṛṣṭirūpiṇī (अदृष्टिरूपिणी) is the predicate.
Sanskrit in this line
dṛṣṭiḥ (दृष्टिः) before m (म्) is dṛṣṭir (दृष्टिर्). svasthasya (स्वस्थस्य) plus adṛṣṭi (अदृष्टि) joins a (अ) plus a (अ) into ā (आ), recited svasthasyādṛṣṭirūpiṇī (स्वस्थस्यादृष्टिरूपिणी). bhāvanā (भावना) plus abhāvanā (अभावना) is likewise one long ā (आ) inside the compound.
Say it back
What is the dull one's seeing stuck to, and what form does that seeing take for the one settled in himself?