3.54
तारकं सर्वविषयं सर्वथाविषयमक्रमं चेति विवेकजं ज्ञानम्
tārakaṃ sarva-viṣayaṃ sarvathā-viṣayam akramaṃ ceti vivekajaṃ jñānam
The line
Knowledge born of discernment is liberating, has every object, has objects in every way, and is without sequence.
नेपालीमा
विवेकबाट जन्मेको ज्ञान पार लगाउने हुन्छ, सबै विषय लिन्छ, हरेक प्रकारले विषय लिन्छ, र क्रम हुँदैन।
Where it sits
The description of the knowledge 3.52 produced. 3.55 is the last line of the pāda (पाद), and it does not add another power. It defines aloneness as a sameness of purity. The powers end here.
Split: tārakam (तारकम्) + sarva (सर्व) + viṣayam (विषयम्) + sarvathā (सर्वथा) + viṣayam (विषयम्) + akramam (अक्रमम्) + ca (च) + iti (इति) + viveka (विवेक) + jam (जम्) + jñānam (ज्ञानम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tārakam (तारकम्) | nominative singular, neuter | liberating. What carries across. |
| sarva (सर्व) | stem | every. |
| viṣayam (विषयम्) | nominative singular, neuter | having every object. |
| sarvathā (सर्वथा) | indeclinable | in every way. |
| viṣayam (विषयम्) | nominative singular, neuter | having objects in every way. |
| akramam (अक्रमम्) | nominative singular, neuter | without sequence. a- (अ) plus krama (क्रम). |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and. |
| iti (इति) | indeclinable | thus. The list of descriptions closes. |
| viveka (विवेक) | stem | discernment. |
| jam (जम्) | nominative singular, neuter | born. |
| jñānam (ज्ञानम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the knowledge. All the adjectives agree with it. |
The phrases
Knowledge born of discernment is liberating, has every object, has objects in every way, and is without sequence. ca iti (च इति) is recited ceti (चेति), a (अ) + i (इ) = e (ए). iti (इति) closes the list of four descriptions. All of them are neuter -am (अम्), agreeing with jñānam (ज्ञानम्).
“Without sequence” is the surprise. 3.52 was saṃyama (संयम) on sequence. The knowledge born from that does not itself arrive in a sequence. It is not one fact after another.
Sanskrit in this line
ca (च) + iti (इति) = ceti (चेति), a (अ) + i (इ) = e (ए). iti (इति) after a list means “such is.” Four neuter adjectives, one noun. akrama (अक्रम) is the privative of krama (क्रम), the sequence of 3.15 and 3.52.
Say it back
Say the four descriptions, then the iti (इति), then the name of the knowledge.
Next
3.55. When the purity of sattva and the purity of puruṣa are the same, that is aloneness.