1.37
वीतरागविषयं वा चित्तम्
vīta-rāga-viṣayaṃ vā cittam
The line
Or a mind whose object is someone free of desire.
नेपालीमा
अथवा वीतरागलाई विषय बनाएको चित्त पनि हुन्छ।
Where it sits
1.35 and 1.36 steadied the mind by an activity. This line steadies it by the company it keeps as an object: a person free of rāga (राग). The word citta (चित्त) finally appears with the ending the stem never wore inside the compounds.
Split: vīta (वीत) + rāga (राग) + viṣayam (विषयम्) + vā (वा) + cittam (चित्तम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| vīta (वीत) | stem | gone away, departed. |
| rāga (राग) | stem | coloring desire. The same rāga (राग) that vairāgya (वैराग्य) is the absence of. |
| viṣayam (विषयम्) | accusative singular, neuter | having that as its object. The ending agrees with cittam (चित्तम्). |
| vā (वा) | indeclinable | or. |
| cittam (चित्तम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the mind. Here standing as its own word, with its neuter ending. |
The phrases
vīta-rāga-viṣayam (वीतरागविषयम्) describes cittam (चित्तम्). A mind whose object is someone from whom desire has gone. Or, a mind that has taken such a person as its support. cittam (चित्तम्) is the neuter nominative you were told to expect when citta (चित्त) stands alone.
The vā (वा) continues the list of ways. This way is a mind, not an activity. The noun has changed, so 1.36's anuvṛtti (अनुवृत्ति) stops here.
Sanskrit in this line
This is the line that shows citta (चित्त) as a noun with its own ending. Inside citta-vṛtti-nirodhaḥ (चित्तवृत्तिनिरोधः) the stem had no ending. Alone, the nominative singular neuter is cittam (चित्तम्). The compound vīta-rāga-viṣayam (वीतरागविषयम्) takes the same -am (अम्) because it agrees with cittam (चित्तम्).
Say it back
Say cittam (चित्तम्), then what its object is. Hear the -am (अम्) on both.