2.11
ध्यानहेयास् तद्वृत्तयः
dhyāna-heyās tad-vṛttayaḥ
The line
Their activities are to be let go by meditation.
नेपालीमा
तिनीहरूका वृत्तिहरू ध्यानले छोड्नुपर्छ।
Where it sits
The pair 2.10–2.11 is the method. Seed-form affliction resolves back. Affliction that has become an activity is released in meditation. The next lines say what those afflictions produce if they are not let go: the store of action, and suffering.
Split: dhyāna (ध्यान) + heyāḥ (हेयाः) + tat (तत्) + vṛttayaḥ (वृत्तयः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| dhyāna (ध्यान) | stem | meditation. |
| heyāḥ (हेयाः) | nominative plural | to be let go. The gerundive from 2.10. |
| tat (तत्) | stem | of those. Of the afflictions. |
| vṛttayaḥ (वृत्तयः) | nominative plural of vṛtti (वृत्ति) | the activities. The same word as in 1.5, now the active form of the afflictions. |
The phrases
dhyāna-heyāḥ (ध्यानहेयाः) means “to be let go by meditation.” tad-vṛttayaḥ (तद्वृत्तयः) is “their activities.” Before tad (तद्), heyāḥ (हेयाः) is recited heyās (हेयास्), āḥ (आः) before t (त्) becoming ās (आस्), as in vikṣepās te (विक्षेपास् ते).
2.10 was the subtle affliction, resolved back. This is the affliction that has become a vṛtti (वृत्ति), an activity. Meditation is what lets that activity go.
Sanskrit in this line
No new ending. Hear heyāḥ tad (हेयाः तद्) as heyās tad (हेयास् तद्), the long-vowel visarga rule from 1.30. vṛttayaḥ (वृत्तयः) is the nominative plural of vṛtti (वृत्ति), which you have known since 1.5. The new information is which vṛttis (वृत्ति): the activities of the afflictions, not the five of 1.6.
Say it back
Contrast the two lines aloud: pratiprasava-heyāḥ (प्रतिप्रसवहेयाः) and dhyāna-heyāḥ (ध्यानहेयाः). Same gerundive, two different means.