Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 24–50 (उपदेश) / 47
47
Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
सर्वं देहगतं द्रव्यं वियद्व्याप्तं मृगेक्षणे ।
विभावयेत् ततस् तस्य भावना सा स्थिरा भवेत् sarvaṃ dehagataṃ dravyaṃ viyadvyāptaṃ mṛgekṣaṇe |
vibhāvayet tatas tasya bhāvanā sā sthirā bhavet
The line
Every substance in the body, as pervaded by the void, O gazelle-eyed one, one should contemplate. Then that contemplation of his would become steady.
नेपालीमा
हे मृगआँखी, शरीरमा भएको हरेक द्रव्य शून्यले व्याप्त भएको सम्झनु। तब त्यो भावना स्थिर हुन्छ।
Where it sits
He calls her mṛgekṣaṇe (मृगेक्षणे) often from here on. It is a vocative, not a new teaching.
Split: sarvam (सर्वम्) + dehagatam (देहगतम्) + dravyam (द्रव्यम्) + viyadvyāptam (वियद्व्याप्तम्) + mṛgekṣaṇe (मृगेक्षणे) + vibhāvayet (विभावयेत्) + tataḥ (ततः) + tasya (तस्य) + bhāvanā (भावना) + sā (सा) + sthirā (स्थिरा) + bhavet (भवेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| sarvam (सर्वम्) | accusative singular, neuter | every. |
| dehagatam (देहगतम्) | accusative singular, neuter | gone into the body, belonging to the body. |
| dravyam (द्रव्यम्) | accusative singular, neuter | substance, thing. |
| viyadvyāptam (वियद्व्याप्तम्) | accusative singular, neuter | pervaded by the void. |
| mṛgekṣaṇe (मृगेक्षणे) | vocative singular, feminine | O gazelle-eyed one. mṛga (मृग) is a deer. īkṣaṇa (ईक्षण) is an eye. |
| vibhāvayet (विभावयेत्) | optative causative | one should contemplate. |
| tataḥ (ततः) | indeclinable | then. |
| tasya (तस्य) | genitive singular | of him. |
| bhāvanā (भावना) | nominative singular, feminine | contemplation. |
| sā (सा) | nominative singular, feminine | that. |
| sthirā (स्थिरा) | nominative singular, feminine | steady. |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative, third person singular | it would become. |
The phrases
The accusatives are one object: every substance in the body, as pervaded by void. mṛgekṣaṇe (मृगेक्षणे) is his address for her. Then that contemplation becomes steady.
Sanskrit in this line
mṛgekṣaṇe (मृगेक्षणे) is a feminine vocative of a compound in a (अ). The vocative of ā (आ) stems is e (ए).
Say it back
Say what pervades every substance in the body.