3.50
तद्वैराग्यादपि दोषबीजक्षये कैवल्यम्
tad-vairāgyād api doṣa-bīja-kṣaye kaivalyam
The line
From dispassion toward even that, when the seed of the defect is gone, aloneness.
नेपालीमा
त्यसप्रति पनि वैराग्यबाट, दोषको बीज गएपछि, कैवल्य हुन्छ।
Where it sits
The turn. Everything from 3.16 to 3.49 is what dispassion is toward. 3.51 will say what to do when the powers, personified, invite you. 3.55 will define aloneness again as equal purity.
Split: tat (तत्) + vairāgyāt (वैराग्यात्) + api (अपि) + doṣa (दोष) + bīja (बीज) + kṣaye (क्षये) + kaivalyam (कैवल्यम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tat (तत्) | stem | toward that. Toward the knowership of 3.49. |
| vairāgyāt (वैराग्यात्) | ablative singular | from dispassion. |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. Even toward that. |
| doṣa (दोष) | stem | the defect. The stain that remains while a power is prized. |
| bīja (बीज) | stem | the seed. |
| kṣaye (क्षये) | locative singular | when there is dwindling. When the seed of the defect is gone. |
| kaivalyam (कैवल्यम्) | nominative singular, neuter | aloneness. From 2.25. |
The phrases
From dispassion toward even that, when the seed of the defect dwindles, aloneness. vairāgyāt api (वैराग्यातपि) is recited vairāgyād api (वैराग्यादपि), t (त्) before a vowel. The locative kṣaye (क्षये) is the when. kaivalyam (कैवल्यम्) is the nominative.
The highest power is included in the “even.” Dispassion was the second method of 1.12. Here it is aimed at omniscience and sovereignty. That is what releases.
Sanskrit in this line
Ablative vairāgyāt (वैराग्यात्), “from dispassion,” and locative kṣaye (क्षये), “when the seed is gone.” api (अपि) is the word that makes the line hard. It includes the fruit of 3.49 in what one is dispassionate toward.
Say it back
Say what the dispassion is toward. Include the “even.”