योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-4, chapter-20, verse-3

भावाभावग्रहोत्सर्गदृशश्चेतनकल्पिताः ।
नासत्या नापि सत्यास्ता मनश्चापलकारिताः ॥ ३ ॥

bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛśaścetanakalpitāḥ ,
nāsatyā nāpi satyāstā manaścāpalakāritāḥ 3

3. bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛśaḥ cetana kalpitāḥ na
asatyāḥ na api satyāḥ tāḥ manaḥcāpalakāritāḥ

3. tāḥ cetana kalpitāḥ bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛśaḥ
na asatyāḥ na api satyāḥ manaḥcāpalakāritāḥ

3. Perceptions regarding the acceptance of existence and the rejection of non-existence, which are imagined by consciousness (cetana), are neither untrue nor truly real; they are merely brought about by the mind's fickleness.

Words meanings summery:

• भावाभावग्रहोत्सर्गदृशः (bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛśaḥ) - perceptions of accepting existence and rejecting non-existence

• चेतन (cetana) - consciousness, sentient being

• कल्पिताः (kalpitāḥ) - imagined, created, fabricated, invented

• न (na) - not, no

• असत्याः (asatyāḥ) - unreal, untrue, false

• न (na) - not, no

• अपि (api) - also, even, indeed

• सत्याः (satyāḥ) - real, true, existent

• ताः (tāḥ) - these perceptions (they (feminine))

• मनःचापलकारिताः (manaḥcāpalakāritāḥ) - merely products of the mind's fickleness (caused by the mind's fickleness)

Words meanings and morphology

भावाभावग्रहोत्सर्गदृशः (bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛśaḥ) - perceptions of accepting existence and rejecting non-existence

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛś

bhāvābhāvagrahotsargadṛś - perceptions concerning the grasping of existence and the rejection of non-existence

Compound type : dvandva-tatpuruṣa (bhāva+abhāva+graha+utsarga+dṛś)

• bhāva – existence, being, state, idea, emotion
  noun (masculine)
  From root 'bhū' (to be)
  Root: bhū (class 1)
• abhāva – non-existence, absence, non-being
  noun (masculine)
  Negation of 'bhāva'
  Prefix: a
• graha – grasping, seizing, acceptance, perception
  noun (masculine)
  From root 'grah' (to seize, grasp)
  Root: grah (class 9)
• utsarga – rejection, abandonment, emission, giving up
  noun (masculine)
  From root 'sṛj' (to emit, create) with prefix 'ut'
  Prefix: ut
  Root: sṛj (class 6)
• dṛś – sight, vision, perception, view
  noun (feminine)
  From root 'dṛś' (to see)
  Root: dṛś (class 1)

Note: Subject of the implied verb 'are'.

चेतन (cetana) - consciousness, sentient being

(noun)

Instrumental, feminine, singular of cetana

cetana - consciousness, sentient, intelligent, animated

From root 'cit' (to perceive, understand)

Root: cit (class 1)

Note: Agent for 'kalpitāḥ'.

कल्पिताः (kalpitāḥ) - imagined, created, fabricated, invented

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of kalpita

kalpita - imagined, created, fabricated, made, prepared

Past Passive Participle

From root 'kḷp' (to arrange, make, imagine)

Root: kḷp (class 1)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

Note: Used twice in a 'na... na api...' construction (neither... nor indeed...).

असत्याः (asatyāḥ) - unreal, untrue, false

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of asatya

asatya - unreal, untrue, false

Negation of 'satya' (true)

Compound type : nañ-tatpuruṣa (a+satya)

• a – not, non-
  indeclinable
• satya – true, real, truthful, truth
  adjective (masculine)
  From 'sat' (existent, real) + 'ya' suffix

Note: Predicate adjective, agreeing with 'tāḥ'.

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

Note: Part of 'na... na api...' construction.

अपि (api) - also, even, indeed

(indeclinable)

सत्याः (satyāḥ) - real, true, existent

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of satya

satya - true, real, truthful, truth

From 'sat' (existent, real) + 'ya' suffix

Note: Predicate adjective, agreeing with 'tāḥ'.

ताः (tāḥ) - these perceptions (they (feminine))

(pronoun)

Nominative, feminine, plural of tad

tad - that, this, he, she, it

Note: Refers to 'dṛśaḥ'.

मनःचापलकारिताः (manaḥcāpalakāritāḥ) - merely products of the mind's fickleness (caused by the mind's fickleness)

(adjective)

Nominative, feminine, plural of manaḥcāpalakārita

manaḥcāpalakārita - caused by or produced from the mind's fickleness

Compound type : ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (manas+cāpalya+kārita)

• manas – mind, intellect, thought
  noun (neuter)
• cāpalya – fickleness, unsteadiness, restlessness, swiftness
  noun (neuter)
  From 'capala' (fickle, unsteady) + 'ya' suffix (abstract noun)
• kārita – caused, made, effected, performed
  adjective (masculine)
  Past Passive Participle
  Causative from root 'kṛ' (to do, make)
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

Note: Predicate adjective, agreeing with 'tāḥ'.