Aṣṭāvakra Gītā / Aṣṭāvakra (अध्याय १८) / 18.93
18.93
the Aṣṭāvakra Gītā (अष्टावक्र गीता)
आत्मविश्रान्तितृप्तेन निराशेन गतार्तिना ।
अन्तर् यदनुभूयेत तत् कथं कस्य कथ्यते ātmaviśrāntitṛptena nirāśena gatārtinā |
antar yad anubhūyeta tat kathaṃ kasya kathyate
The line
What would be experienced within by one content in the rest of the self, without hope, his pain gone: how, and to whom, is that told?
नेपालीमा
आत्माको विश्राममा तृप्त, निराश, पीडा गएकोले भित्र जे अनुभव होस्, त्यो कसरी र कसलाई भनिन्छ?
Where it sits
Aṣṭāvakra (अष्टावक्र) is still speaking, and the yogin whose aim is done is now the one whose inner experience is not told.
Split: ātmaviśrāntitṛptena (आत्मविश्रान्तितृप्तेन) + nirāśena (निराशेन) + gatārtinā (गतार्तिना) + antaḥ (अन्तः) + yat (यत्) + anubhūyeta (अनुभूयेत) + tat (तत्) + katham (कथम्) + kasya (कस्य) + kathyate (कथ्यते)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| ātmaviśrāntitṛptena (आत्मविश्रान्तितृप्तेन) | instrumental singular, masculine | by one content in the rest of the self. tṛpta (तृप्त) is content. viśrānti (विश्रान्ति) is rest. ātman (आत्मन्) is the self. |
| nirāśena (निराशेन) | instrumental singular, masculine | by one without hope. Agrees with the first instrumental. |
| gatārtinā (गतार्तिना) | instrumental singular, masculine | by one whose pain has gone. ārti (आर्ति) is pain. gata (गत) is gone. |
| antaḥ (अन्तः) | indeclinable | within. Recited antar (अन्तर्) before y (य्). |
| yat (यत्) | nominative singular, neuter | that which. Recited yad (यद्) before the vowel. Correlative is tat (तत्). |
| anubhūyeta (अनुभूयेत) | optative third person singular, passive | would be experienced. From bhū (भू) with anu (अनु). |
| tat (तत्) | nominative singular, neuter | that. Correlative of yat (यत्). |
| katham (कथम्) | indeclinable | how? |
| kasya (कस्य) | genitive singular | to whom, of whom. |
| kathyate (कथ्यते) | present third person singular, passive | is told. From kath (कथ्). |
The phrases
The three instrumentals name one person, the one by whom yat (यत्) would be anubhūyeta (अनुभूयेत), and antaḥ (अन्तः) places the experience. tat (तत्) picks it up as the subject of kathyate (कथ्यते). katham (कथम्) and kasya (कस्य) ask the manner and the hearer.
Sanskrit in this line
antaḥ (अन्तः) before y (य्) is antar (अन्तर्). yat (यत्) plus anubhūyeta (अनुभूयेत) is yad (यद्) anubhūyeta (अनुभूयेत), the t (त्) voiced and joined to the vowel.
Say it back
Whose inner experience is asked about, and what two questions are put to the telling of it?