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Chapter 12.212 - Verse 49

Sanskrit Text

द्रुमं यथा वाप्युदके पतन्त;मुत्सृज्य पक्षी प्रपतत्यसक्तः तथा ह्यसौ सुखदुःखे विहाय; मुक्तः परार्ध्यां गतिमेत्यलिङ्गः

English Translation

As a bird leaves a tree that is about to fall down upon a water and sits on a (new) resting place, similarly similarly the person freed from attachinents renounces both joy and sorrow and dissociated even from his subtile and subtler forms attains to that end which is full of the highest prosperty.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

द्रुमं | यथा | वा + अपि + उदक | पतन्तम् | उत्सृज्य | पक्षी | प्रपत् + असक्त
यदा | हि + अदस् | सुख + दुःख | जहाति | मुच् + तदा + अग्र्य | गतिम् | इ + अलिङ्ग