Dashak 18 · Samāsa 10

Attention to a certain work; somehow obstruction occurs; / if time permits, spontaneously — it happens.

Work began to proceed; by that the creature sorrow arose; / consideration too began to come — day by day.

Some creatures come to birth; somehow time permits; / after sorrow gives sukha — Deva with compassion.

If all time became favorable — all would become kings. / Some succeed, some don't — such it is.

This-world or other-world; on obtaining some vivek; / wondrous happens spontaneously — gift of Īśvara.

Known without hearing; wisdom arrived without learning; / has not been seen or heard — on earth-globe.

All this comes to know on hearing; on knowing-and-knowing, vṛtti clears; / rigorously in mind it grasps — the sāra-asāra.

Śravaṇa means to hear; manana means to hold in mind; / by this means naturally — three worlds proceed.

Obstacles come in śravaṇa; various kinds — how many to tell? / When alert, pratyayas come — everything.

In śravaṇa people sat; speaking-speaking became one-pointed; / thereafter those who newly came — are not one-pointed.

Man roamed outside and came; heard various kinds; / began much commotion — not being silent.

Those who walk seeing occasion — such people are few. / Various obstructions occur in śravaṇa — hear them.

Sat to listen in śravaṇa; body began to falter; / yawns come crackling — from sleep's force.

Sat making mind alert; but that mind does not listen; / what was heard earlier — it sits holding that.

Made body eager; but in mind, other consideration; / kalpanā imagines its expanse — how much to tell?

Whatever fell in the ears, that much understood and examined; / only then something is fulfilled — in nirūpaṇa.

Mind appears, but must be held; each one must restrain; / restraining, should hold by vivek — in meaning-depth.

Came and sat in nirūpaṇa; but ate a lot and came; / on sitting became distressed — thirsty.

First water was brought; gulped abundantly; / by that began to feel nauseous — rose and left.

Dry-burps, hiccoughs give; on passing gas, great shame; / moment-by-moment rise and go — for low-urination.

Bowel-need distresses; abandoning all, runs; / left during nirūpaṇa-occasion — thus unbroken.

In the example something wondrous came; the antaḥkaraṇa stayed there; / how much was read up to where — nothing is known.

Came and sat in nirūpaṇa; a scorpion snapped him; / how will nirūpaṇa happen? — distressed.

Cramp arose in belly; ache filled the back; / cracked sole, boil formed — cannot sit.

A mad-dog bit and fled; by that the creature became distracted; / whoever made a loud commotion — runs there.

Lustful people come in śravaṇa; they look at women; / thieves secretly steal — sandals.

'Yes-or-no' dispute — by that abundant grief; / insults, curses accidentally — occur missed.

Some sit in nirūpaṇa; leisurely start chatting; / haridāsas do 're re' — for their belly.

Many knowers gathered; one speaks before another; / people's aspirations remained — who knows?

'Mine is, yours isn't' — such a constant habit; / leaving justice-ethics, runs — to injustice.

For one's own greatness — spouts nonsense; / where there's no justice at the end — is the supreme unjust.

Pride arises on one side; grows abundant on the other; / such listeners true-or-false — who knows?

Therefore the knowing insightful — hold not-knowing first; / themselves remain fool-insensitive — [as if] nothing at all.

'Deva is greater than oneself' — he who has known this consideration; / should preserve all jagad-antara — too.

In an assembly, a quarrel arose; the word comes to the knower; / has not learned to preserve interiors — what yogī? / Doing enmity, enmity grows; oneself must bear duḥkha; / therefore the wise — have seen signals.

Unbroken watch over oneself; do not let triviality come; / for great people, kṣamā-śānti — is essential.

The virtuous sat near the defective; defects became known at that moment; / the vivekī puruṣa's doing — happens by vivek.

Means, alternatives, long effort; by vivek-strength, various efforts; / one who does these — his greatness — only he knows.

Turned off-course by the wicked; dragged by loose people; / awakened from vivek — how is a vivekī?

Justice, alternative, means — to the fool, what is known? / By the fool, chutney is made — of the conversation.

Then the wise set it right; themselves bear and cause-to-bear; / themselves do and cause-to-be-done — through people.

On earth abundant people; among people are sajjanas; / through whom samādhāna — to every creature.

He knows the body-parts of inner-aims; knows honor, occasion, time; / knows to cool the angered — in various ways.

Such is the knowing person; his vivek is powerful; / his some doing — is not known to people.

Moves many people; moves various gatherings; / such is the rank of samarthya — occurs by vivek.

Vivek must be done in solitude; hold the jagadīśa by dhāraṇā; / 'this is our person, and that foreign' — should not be said.

In solitude vivek falls in place; in solitude effort is found; / in solitude tarka soars — in the brahmāṇḍa-globe.

In solitude smaraṇa should be done; missed treasure falls in place; / with the Antarātmā roams — something.

To whom solitude is accepted — to him all is known first; / apart from that, greatness — has no place.