योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-3, chapter-54, verse-71

वासनामात्रवैचित्र्यं यज्जीवोऽनुभवेत्स्वयम् ।
तस्यैव जीवमरणे नामनी परिकल्पिते ॥ ७१ ॥

vāsanāmātravaicitryaṃ yajjīvo'nubhavetsvayam ,
tasyaiva jīvamaraṇe nāmanī parikalpite 71

71. vāsanāmātravacitryam yat jīvaḥ anubhavet
svayam tasya eva jīvamaraṇe nāmanī parikalpite

71. jīvaḥ svayam yat vāsanāmātravacitryam anubhavet,
tasya eva jīvamaraṇe nāmanī parikalpite (stah)

71. What the individual soul (jīva) experiences by itself is merely the diversity of latent impressions (vāsanā). For this very process, the two names, "life" and "death," are merely imagined.

Words meanings summery:

• वासनामात्रवचित्र्यम् (vāsanāmātravacitryam) - merely the diversity of latent impressions (vāsanā) (the mere diversity of latent impressions, the variety of desires only)

• यत् (yat) - that which (which, that which)

• जीवः (jīvaḥ) - individual soul (jīva) (living being, individual soul, life principle)

• अनुभवेत् (anubhavet) - experiences (should experience, would experience, perceives)

• स्वयम् (svayam) - by itself (by oneself, personally, automatically)

• तस्य (tasya) - for this (process) (of that, for that)

• एव (eva) - very, only (alone, only, just, indeed, certainly)

• जीवमरणे (jīvamaraṇe) - life and death

• नामनी (nāmanī) - two names

• परिकल्पिते (parikalpite) - are merely imagined (imagined, constructed, attributed, ascribed)

Words meanings and morphology

वासनामात्रवचित्र्यम् (vāsanāmātravacitryam) - merely the diversity of latent impressions (vāsanā) (the mere diversity of latent impressions, the variety of desires only)

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of vāsanāmātravacitrya

vāsanāmātravacitrya - the diversity consisting merely of vāsanās

Compound type : karmadhāraya (vāsanāmātra+vaicitrya)

• vāsanāmātra – mere latent impression, consisting only of vāsanā
  noun (neuter)
• vaicitrya – diversity, variety, manifoldness, peculiarity
  noun (neuter)
  Derived from 'vicitra' (variegated) + suffix 'ṣyañ'

यत् (yat) - that which (which, that which)

(pronoun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of yad

yad - which, what, that which, whoever

Note: Relates to 'vāsanāmātravacitryam'.

जीवः (jīvaḥ) - individual soul (jīva) (living being, individual soul, life principle)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of jīva

jīva - living, alive, living being, individual soul, principle of life

Derived from root jīv 'to live'.

Root: jīv (class 1)

Note: Subject of 'anubhavet'.

अनुभवेत् (anubhavet) - experiences (should experience, would experience, perceives)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (liṅ) of anubhū

Optative mood

3rd person singular, active voice (Parasmaipada) Optative (liṅ) from root bhū (class 1) with prefix anu-.

Prefix: anu

Root: bhū (class 1)

स्वयम् (svayam) - by itself (by oneself, personally, automatically)

(indeclinable)

तस्य (tasya) - for this (process) (of that, for that)

(pronoun)

Genitive, neuter, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

Note: Refers to the process of experiencing 'vāsanāmātravacitryam'.

एव (eva) - very, only (alone, only, just, indeed, certainly)

(indeclinable)

जीवमरणे (jīvamaraṇe) - life and death

(noun)

neuter, dual of jīvamaraṇa

jīvamaraṇa - life and death

Compound type : dvandva (jīva+maraṇa)

• jīva – life, living, alive, individual soul
  noun (masculine)
  Root: jīv (class 1)
• maraṇa – death, dying
  noun (neuter)
  Derived from root mṛ 'to die'.
  Root: mṛ (class 6)

नामनी (nāmanī) - two names

(noun)

neuter, dual of nāman

nāman - name, appellation, designation

परिकल्पिते (parikalpite) - are merely imagined (imagined, constructed, attributed, ascribed)

(participle)

Nominative, neuter, dual of parikalpita

parikalpita - imagined, fancied, invented, fabricated, fixed, determined

Past Passive Participle

Derived from root kḷp (class 1) with prefix pari-, meaning 'to form, devise, arrange'.

Prefix: pari

Root: kḷp (class 1)

Note: Agrees with 'nāmanī' and 'jīvamaraṇe'.