Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 51–80 (उपदेश) / 53
53
Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)
एवमेव जगत् सर्वं दग्धं ध्यात्वा विकल्पतः ।
अनन्यचेतसः पुंसः पुम्भावः परमो भवेत् evam eva jagat sarvaṃ dagdhaṃ dhyātvā vikalpataḥ |
ananyacetasaḥ puṃsaḥ pumbhāvaḥ paramo bhavet
The line
Just so, having meditated the whole world as burned, by means of constructing, for a person whose mind is on nothing else, the state of a person would become supreme.
नेपालीमा
यसै गरी सारा जगत् जलेको ध्यान गरेर, विकल्पबाट, अर्कोतिर मन नलगेका पुरुषको पुरुषभाव परम हुन्छ।
Where it sits
The verse names the burning as a vikalpa (विकल्प). That is the verse's account of what kind of act the meditation is.
Split: evam (एवम्) + eva (एव) + jagat (जगत्) + sarvam (सर्वम्) + dagdham (दग्धम्) + dhyātvā (ध्यात्वा) + vikalpataḥ (विकल्पतः) + ananyacetasaḥ (अनन्यचेतसः) + puṃsaḥ (पुंसः) + pumbhāvaḥ (पुम्भावः) + paramaḥ (परमः) + bhavet (भवेत्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| evam (एवम्) | indeclinable | thus. |
| eva (एव) | indeclinable | itself. |
| jagat (जगत्) | accusative singular, neuter | the world. |
| sarvam (सर्वम्) | accusative singular, neuter | whole. |
| dagdham (दग्धम्) | accusative singular, neuter | burned. |
| dhyātvā (ध्यात्वा) | absolutive | having meditated. |
| vikalpataḥ (विकल्पतः) | adverb in tas (त) | from vikalpa (विकल्प), by means of constructing. |
| ananyacetasaḥ (अनन्यचेतसः) | genitive singular, masculine | of one whose mind is on nothing else. |
| puṃsaḥ (पुंसः) | genitive singular, masculine | of a person. |
| pumbhāvaḥ (पुम्भावः) | nominative singular, masculine | the state of being a person. bhāva (भाव) is a state. |
| paramaḥ (परमः) | nominative singular, masculine | supreme. |
| bhavet (भवेत्) | optative | it would become. |
The phrases
evam eva (एवमेव) points back to the burned city. The world is meditated as burned, and the verse itself says vikalpataḥ (विकल्पतः): by constructing. For that person, personhood becomes supreme.
Sanskrit in this line
vikalpataḥ (विकल्पतः) is vikalpa (विकल्प) plus tas (त). The suffix names the source or the manner.
Say it back
Say the verse's own word for the kind of act the burning is.