18.53
अहंकारं बलं दर्पं
कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम् ।
विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तो
ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते ॥
ahaṃkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ parigraham
vimucya nirmamaḥ śānto brahmabhūyāya kalpate
Kṛṣṇa (कृष्ण) is still speaking. kalpate (कल्पते) closes the sentence opened in 18.51.
The verse
Having released ego, force, pride, desire, anger, and grasping, without "mine," calm, he is fit for becoming brahman (ब्रह्म).
नेपालीमा
अहंकार, बल, गर्व, कामना, क्रोध र कब्जा छाडेको, ममता बिना र शान्त, ऊ ब्रह्म बन्न योग्य हुन्छ।
Where it sits
The account promised in 18.50 ends on kalpate (कल्पते), he is fit for becoming brahman (ब्रह्म), and the next verse says the devotion that follows.
Split: अहंकारम् + बलम् + दर्पम् + कामम् + क्रोधम् + परिग्रहम् + विमुच्य + निर्ममः + शान्तः + ब्रह्म-भूयाय + कल्पते
ahaṃkāram + balam + darpam + kāmam + krodham + parigraham + vimucya + nirmamaḥ + śāntaḥ + brahma-bhūyāya + kalpate
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| देवनागरी | Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|---|
| अहंकारम् | ahaṃkāram | accusative | I-making, the ego. |
| बलम् | balam | accusative | force. |
| दर्पम् | darpam | accusative | pride, the swagger. |
| कामम् | kāmam | accusative | desire. |
| क्रोधम् | krodham | accusative | anger. |
| परिग्रहम् | parigraham | accusative | grasping, taking things as one's own. |
| विमुच्य | vimucya | gerund | having released. From vi-muc (वि-मुच्). |
| निर्ममः | nirmamaḥ | nominative | without "mine." nir (निर्) takes mama (मम) away. |
| शान्तः | śāntaḥ | nominative | calm. |
| ब्रह्म-भूयाय | brahma-bhūyāya | dative | for becoming brahman (ब्रह्म). bhūya (भूय) is becoming. |
| कल्पते | kalpate | present, 3rd singular | he is fit, he is ready. From kḷp (कॢप्). |
The phrases
ahaṃkāraṃ balaṃ darpaṃ kāmaṃ krodhaṃ parigraham (अहंकारं बलं दर्पं कामं क्रोधं परिग्रहम्) is one pile of accusatives. Ego, force, pride, desire, anger, grasping. All of them are the object of the gerund.
vimucya nirmamaḥ śāntaḥ (विमुच्य निर्ममः शान्तः) is the man after the release. Having let that pile go, he is without "mine," and calm. Both adjectives are nominative, the subject of kalpate (कल्पते).
brahmabhūyāya kalpate (ब्रह्मभूयाय कल्पते) is the fitness the summary has been building toward. He is ready for becoming brahman (ब्रह्म). The dative is what he is fit for.
Sanskrit in this line
The dative answers "for." brahma-bhūyāya (ब्रह्म-भूयाय) is "for the becoming of brahman (ब्रह्म)," and kalpate (कल्पते) takes that dative: he is fit for it. शान्तः + ब् śāntaḥ + b of brahma (ब्रह्म) is recited śānto (शान्तो), because aḥ (अः) before a voiced consonant becomes o (ओ).
Say it back
Cover the English. Say the six he releases, then what he is fit for. If brahma-bhūyāya (ब्रह्म-भूयाय) becomes a place he travels to later, stay here.