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Chapter 12.308 - Verse 33

Sanskrit Text

यथा चोत्तापितं बीजं कपाले यत्र तत्र वा प्राप्याप्यङ्कुरहेतुत्वमबीजत्वान्न जायते

English Translation

As a seed, fried on a pan or otherwise, becomes unfit to sprout forth although the power for sprouting lies there, similarly my understanding having been freed from the productive principle formed by desire, by the instructions of the holy Panchashikha of the mendicant order, it no longer gives its fruit in the form of attachment to the objects of the senses.

Padaccheda (Word Analysis)

यथा | च + उत्तापय् | बीजं | कपाले | यत्र | तत्र | वा
प्राप् + अपि + अङ्कुर + हेतु + त्व | अबीज + त्व + न | जायते