योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-6, chapter-80, verse-8

यत्पश्यामि न पश्यामि तत्पश्याम्यन्यदेव यत् ।
प्रलाप इत्यसंन्यस्य स कथं किल शोभते ॥ ८ ॥

yatpaśyāmi na paśyāmi tatpaśyāmyanyadeva yat ,
pralāpa ityasaṃnyasya sa kathaṃ kila śobhate 8

8. yat paśyāmi na paśyāmi tat paśyāmi anyat eva yat
pralāpaḥ iti asaṃnyasya saḥ kathaṃ kila śobhate

8. yaḥ "yat paśyāmi,
na paśyāmi,
tat anyat eva yat paśyāmi" iti pralāpaḥ asaṃnyasya,
saḥ kathaṃ kila śobhate?

8. How can one truly flourish who, without renouncing this type of incoherent rambling (pralāpa), declares: 'What I see, I do not see; and what I see is something entirely different'?

Words meanings summery:

• यत् (yat) - what, which

• पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

• न (na) - not, no

• पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

• तत् (tat) - that, it

• पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

• अन्यत् (anyat) - entirely different (other, different)

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

• यत् (yat) - what, which

• प्रलापः (pralāpaḥ) - incoherent rambling (pralāpa) (incoherent talk, babbling, confused speech, delusion)

• इति (iti) - introducing or concluding a statement, 'this is (rambling)' (thus, so, this is)

• असंन्यस्य (asaṁnyasya) - without abandoning, without renouncing

• सः (saḥ) - he, that

• कथं (kathaṁ) - how? in what manner?

• किल (kila) - expresses a rhetorical question or a hint of sarcasm/doubt. 'How indeed?' (indeed, certainly, as if, they say)

• शोभते (śobhate) - flourishes, appears well (shines, appears beautiful, flourishes, becomes)

Words meanings and morphology

यत् (yat) - what, which

(pronoun)

neuter, singular of yad

yad - what, which, that

पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

(verb)

1st person , singular, active, present (laṭ) of dṛś

present active

from root √dṛś, present stem paśya-

Root: dṛś (class 1)

न (na) - not, no

(indeclinable)

पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

(verb)

1st person , singular, active, present (laṭ) of dṛś

present active

from root √dṛś, present stem paśya-

Root: dṛś (class 1)

तत् (tat) - that, it

(pronoun)

neuter, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

पश्यामि (paśyāmi) - I see, I perceive

(verb)

1st person , singular, active, present (laṭ) of dṛś

present active

from root √dṛś, present stem paśya-

Root: dṛś (class 1)

अन्यत् (anyat) - entirely different (other, different)

(adjective)

neuter, singular of anya

anya - other, different, another

एव (eva) - alone, only, indeed, just

(indeclinable)

यत् (yat) - what, which

(pronoun)

neuter, singular of yad

yad - what, which, that

प्रलापः (pralāpaḥ) - incoherent rambling (pralāpa) (incoherent talk, babbling, confused speech, delusion)

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of pralāpa

pralāpa - incoherent talk, babbling, confused speech, delusion, lamentation

from pra- + √lap (to speak)

Prefix: pra

Root: lap (class 1)

इति (iti) - introducing or concluding a statement, 'this is (rambling)' (thus, so, this is)

(indeclinable)

असंन्यस्य (asaṁnyasya) - without abandoning, without renouncing

(indeclinable)

gerund/absolutive

from negative prefix a- + sam- + ni- + root √as (to throw, to cast)

Compound type : nañ-tatpuruṣa (a+saṃnyasya)

• a – not, non
  indeclinable
  negative prefix
• saṃnyasya – having abandoned, having renounced
  indeclinable
  gerund/absolutive
  from prefix sam- + ni- + root √as (to throw) + suffix -ya
  Prefixes: sam+ni
  Root: as (class 4)

सः (saḥ) - he, that

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of tad

tad - that, he, she, it

कथं (kathaṁ) - how? in what manner?

(indeclinable)

किल (kila) - expresses a rhetorical question or a hint of sarcasm/doubt. 'How indeed?' (indeed, certainly, as if, they say)

(indeclinable)

शोभते (śobhate) - flourishes, appears well (shines, appears beautiful, flourishes, becomes)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of śubh

present middle

from root √śubh

Root: śubh (class 1)

Note: The middle voice (ātmanepada) form.