Vijñāna Bhairava / Verses 51–80 (उपदेश) / 73

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Vijñāna Bhairava (विज्ञान भैरव)

गीतादिविषयास्वादासमसौख्यैकतात्मनः ।
योगिनस् तन्मयत्वेन मनोरूढेस् तदात्मता
gītādiviṣayāsvādāsamasaukhyaikatātmanaḥ |
yoginas tanmayatvena manorūḍhes tadātmatā

The line

Of the yogin (योगिन्) whose self is the oneness of the unequalled pleasure of tasting song and the other objects, by being made of that, from the mind's mounting, there is the state of being that.

नेपालीमा

गीत आदि विषयको स्वादको अतुल सुखमा एक भएका योगीको मन चढ्दा, तन्मय भएर, त्यही भाव हुन्छ।

Where it sits

Song is one of the objects. It sits beside 41, the long note. This verse uses the pleasure of the tasting, and the mounting of the mind.

Split: gītādiviṣayāsvāda (गीतादिविषयास्वाद) + asamasaukhyaikatātmanaḥ (असमसौख्यैकतात्मनः) + yoginaḥ (योगिनः) + tanmayatvena (तन्मयत्वेन) + manorūḍheḥ (मनोरूढेः) + tadātmatā (तदात्मता)

Sanskrit, in depth

The words

WordGrammarSense
gītādiviṣayāsvāda (गीतादिविषयास्वाद)in the compoundthe tasting of song and the other objects. gīta (गीत) is song. āsvāda (आस्वाद) is a tasting.
asamasaukhyaikatātmanaḥ (असमसौख्यैकतात्मनः)genitive singular, masculineof one whose self is the oneness of an unequalled pleasure. asama (असम) is unequalled. saukhya (सौख्य) is pleasure.
yoginaḥ (योगिनः)genitive singular, masculineof the yogin (योगिन्).
tanmayatvena (तन्मयत्वेन)instrumental singular, neuterby being made of that.
manorūḍheḥ (मनोरूढेः)ablative singular, femininefrom the mind's mounting. rūḍhi (रूढि) is a having climbed. Recited manorūḍhes (मनोरूढे).
tadātmatā (तदात्मता)nominative singular, femininethe state of having that as one's self.

The phrases

For the yogin (योगिन्) whose self is the one unequalled pleasure of tasting song and the other objects, from the mind's mounting, by being made of that, there is the state of having that as oneself.

Sanskrit in this line

The genitive yoginaḥ (योगिनः) is the person to whom tadātmatā (तदात्मता) belongs. The sentence has no finite verb. The nominative tadātmatā (तदात्मता) is the claim.

Say it back

Say which art the verse puts first among the objects.