Dashak 18 · Samāsa 5

Abundant grain was measured; but with that measure it was not eaten; / so happened without examination — to every creature.

Reciting is not controlled; on asking nothing is known; / on looking at anubhava, it falls into inference.

Word-gems should be examined; by pratyaya should be taken; / the rest should be abandoned — to one side.

Abandon all name-form; then bring to anubhava; / making sāra-asāra one — is foolishness.

The scribe should understand the context, or read useless[ly]; / by this dṛṣṭānta should understand — someone.

Where there is no understanding — there all is turmoil; / on asking, snappishness — the vaktā does.

Various words were joined; without pratīti remedies were made; / but all went in vain — at discussion-occasion.

Fodder placed on a fistful; the grinder quickly spun; / 'flour came fine' — that does not happen.

Bite-upon-bite was placed; no time to chew; / the whole bolus was filled — how ahead?

Hear the mark of the chief-speaker: does not let a moment pass disjointed; / should continue to take care of — everyone's antaḥkaraṇa.

Take subtle names with ease; recognize their forms; / recognizing, should explain — to listeners.

On inquiry satisfied, they become happy; listeners all delighted; / all moment-by-moment salute — the gosāvīs.

On inquiry satisfied, they honor; on not, they revile; / the gosāvī becomes irritated — on what count?

See and take pure gold; by touchstone test; / by śravaṇa-manana, know — in pratyaya.

The physician's pratīti does not come; the ailment does not recede; / and to rage at people — on what count?

False proceeds nowhere; false is not accepted by anyone; / for this reason, to inference — the true must be brought.

Not knowing writing, made a business; for some days it proceeded; / asking-time came, met the accountant — then it was false.

All is known in the accounts; by pratyaya-witness one should speak; / then what can the accountant do? — tell, no.

Oneself gets entangled; how does understanding happen? / Not-knowing, some — fall into calamities.

Without strength went to war; he is stripped entirely; / whom to blame — who is how?

What has come true to pratīti — that alone should be taken with reverence; / speech without anubhava — know as chaff.

On teaching, anger rises; but ahead collision occurs; / false certainty at once flies off — among people.

Abandoning true, taking false — what lack of abuse? / In the three worlds, Nārāyaṇa — has done justice.

Leaving that justice at end — all the world gets on his back; / quarrel-quarrel, wearied — how much to become?

By injustice, to abound many — has not been seen or heard; / the fool uselessly filled — with untruth.

Untruth means pāpa; know truth as svarūpa; / between these two, attention — whose should be done?

In māyā, speaking-walking is true; without māyā, speech — whence? / For this reason, the root of wordless — should be searched.

Knowing vācyāmśa, abandon it; examining lakṣyāmśa, take it; / for this reason, the wordless root's entanglement — is not encountered.

Aṣṭadhā-prakṛti is pūrva-pakṣa; abandoning, apply lakṣa to alakṣa; / meditatively supremely alert — alone knows.

Various chaff and grain; saying 'one' is un-authoritative; / who would drink sugarcane juice — mixed with ash?

In piṇḍa, nitya-anitya vivek; in brahmāṇḍa, sāra-asāra many; / searching all, take one essence.

Due to māyā, anvaya and vyatireka of any; / without māyā, vivek — how would be done?

Search tattva by tattva; enter the Mahāvākya; / by ātma-nivedana, attain — samādhāna.