4.26
तदा विवेकनिम्नं कैवल्यप्राग्भारं चित्तम्
tadā viveka-nimnaṃ kaivalya-prāgbhāraṃ cittam
The line
Then the mind slopes toward discernment and bears down toward aloneness.
नेपालीमा
त्यसपछि चित्त विवेकतिर ढल्छ र कैवल्यतिर जोडले झुक्छ।
Where it sits
4.25 was the stopping. This is the direction that remains. 4.27 is honest about the gaps in that slope: other ideas still come up from the impressions.
Split: tadā (तदा) + viveka (विवेक) + nimnam (निम्नम्) + kaivalya (कैवल्य) + prāgbhāram (प्राग्भारम्) + cittam (चित्तम्)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| tadā (तदा) | indeclinable | then. When the cultivating of 4.25 has stopped. |
| viveka (विवेक) | stem | discernment. |
| nimnam (निम्नम्) | nominative singular, neuter | sloping toward. Inclined that way. |
| kaivalya (कैवल्य) | stem | aloneness. |
| prāgbhāram (प्राग्भारम्) | nominative singular, neuter | bearing down toward. Heavy in that direction. |
| cittam (चित्तम्) | nominative singular, neuter | the mind. |
The phrases
Then the mind slopes toward discernment and bears down toward aloneness. nimnam (निम्नम्) and prāgbhāram (प्राग्भारम्) both describe cittam (चित्तम्). Two images: a slope, and a weight that has begun to fall that way. The mind is no longer being cultivated into a self. It inclines.
prāgbhāra (प्राग्भार) is a bearing forward and down, the way a mass leans.
Sanskrit in this line
Two bahuvrīhis (बहुव्रीहि) agreeing with cittam (चित्तम्): whose slope is discernment, whose weight is toward aloneness. Neuter -am (अम्) three times. tadā (तदा) is “then,” the same word as in 1.3.
Say it back
Say the two directions of the mind. Slope, and weight.