Chapter 3 Overview
Verse 3.38
धूमेनाव्रियते वह्निर्यथाऽऽदर्शो मलेन च। यथोल्बेनावृतो गर्भस्तथा तेनेदमावृतम्।।3.38।।
dhūmenāvriyate vahnir yathādarśho malena cha yatholbenāvṛito garbhas tathā tenedam āvṛitam
Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 3, Verse 38
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Sanskrit to English Translation
Translator:
As fire is enveloped by smoke, as a mirror is covered by dust, and as an embryo is surrounded by the amniotic sac, so is this enveloped by that.
A Reading - Rantideb
Why: desire is compared to fire covered by smoke, a mirror covered by dust, an embryo covered by the womb, always present but obscuring clear sight.
In life: desire doesn't announce itself plainly, it usually shows up disguised as something else, urgency, justification, or a good reason.
Teaching: when you feel a strong pull toward something, ask what desire might be dressed up underneath the reasoning you're using to justify it.
dhūmenaby smoke
āvriyateis covered
vahniḥfire
yathājust as
ādarśhaḥmirror
malenaby dust
chaalso
yathājust as
ulbenaby the womb
āvṛitaḥis covered
garbhaḥembryo
tathāsimilarly
tenaby that (desire)
idamthis
āvṛitamis covered
Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)
Author:
3.38 धूमेन by smoke? आव्रियते is enveloped? वह्निः fire? यथा as? आदर्शः a mirror? मलेन by dust? च and? यथा as? उल्बेन by the amnion? आवृतः enveloped? गर्भः embryo? तथा so? तेन by it? इदम् this? आवृतम् enveloped.Commentary This means the universe. This also means knowledge. That means desire.