योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-102, verse-1

श्रीराम उवाच ।
परिज्ञाते परे वस्तुन्यनादिनिधनात्मनि ।
संपद्यते वद ब्रह्मन्कीदृशः पुरुषोत्तमः ॥ १ ॥

śrīrāma uvāca ,
parijñāte pare vastunyanādinidhanātmani ,
saṃpadyate vada brahmankīdṛśaḥ puruṣottamaḥ 1

1. śrīrāma uvāca parijñāte pare vastuni anādi-nidhana-ātmani
sampadyate vada brahman kīdṛśaḥ puruṣottamaḥ

1. śrīrāma uvāca brahman,
vada anādi-nidhana-ātmani pare vastuni parijñāte (sati),
puruṣottamaḥ kīdṛśaḥ sampadyate?

1. Śrī Rāma said: O Brahmin, tell me, when the supreme reality (param vastu), whose nature (ātman) is without beginning or end (anādi-nidhana), has been perfectly understood, what kind of supreme person (puruṣottama) does one become?

Words meanings summery:

• श्रीराम (śrīrāma) - Lord Rāma, Śrī Rāma

• उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

• परिज्ञाते (parijñāte) - when fully known, perfectly understood

• परे (pare) - supreme, higher, ultimate

• वस्तुनि (vastuni) - in the reality, in the thing, in the substance

• अनादि-निधन-आत्मनि (anādi-nidhana-ātmani) - in the nature (ātman) of that which is without beginning (anādi) or end (nidhana)

• सम्पद्यते (sampadyate) - becomes, turns into, results in

• वद (vada) - tell, speak, say

• ब्रह्मन् (brahman) - O Brahmin

• कीदृशः (kīdṛśaḥ) - what kind of, what sort of

• पुरुषोत्तमः (puruṣottamaḥ) - the supreme person (puruṣottama), the best among men

Words meanings and morphology

श्रीराम (śrīrāma) - Lord Rāma, Śrī Rāma

(proper noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of śrīrāma

śrīrāma - Lord Rāma, Śrī Rāma (an epithet of Rāma)

उवाच (uvāca) - said, spoke

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, perfect (liṭ) of vac

Root: vac (class 2)

परिज्ञाते (parijñāte) - when fully known, perfectly understood

(adjective)

Locative, neuter, singular of parijñāta

parijñāta - fully known, perfectly understood, recognized

past passive participle

From root jñā (to know) with prefix pari- (thoroughly)

Prefix: pari

Root: jñā (class 9)

Note: Used in a locative absolute construction.

परे (pare) - supreme, higher, ultimate

(adjective)

Locative, neuter, singular of para

para - supreme, higher, ultimate, other, distant

वस्तुनि (vastuni) - in the reality, in the thing, in the substance

(noun)

Locative, neuter, singular of vastu

vastu - thing, object, substance, reality

अनादि-निधन-आत्मनि (anādi-nidhana-ātmani) - in the nature (ātman) of that which is without beginning (anādi) or end (nidhana)

(noun)

Locative, masculine, singular of anādi-nidhana-ātman

anādi-nidhana-ātman - the self/nature without beginning or end

Compound type : karmadhāraya (anādi+nidhana+ātman)

• anādi – without beginning, eternal
  adjective (masculine)
• nidhana – end, destruction, death
  noun (neuter)
• ātman – self, soul, essence, nature
  noun (masculine)

सम्पद्यते (sampadyate) - becomes, turns into, results in

(verb)

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

Prefix: sam

Root: pad (class 4)

वद (vada) - tell, speak, say

(verb)

2nd person , singular, active, imperative (loṭ) of vad

Root: vad (class 1)

ब्रह्मन् (brahman) - O Brahmin

(noun)

Vocative, masculine, singular of brahman

brahman - Brahmin, priest, the Absolute (brahman)

कीदृशः (kīdṛśaḥ) - what kind of, what sort of

(interrogative adjective)

पुरुषोत्तमः (puruṣottamaḥ) - the supreme person (puruṣottama), the best among men

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of puruṣottama

puruṣottama - supreme person, best of persons, highest Puruṣa

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (puruṣa+uttama)

• puruṣa – man, person, the cosmic person (puruṣa)
  noun (masculine)
• uttama – best, highest, supreme, excellent
  adjective (masculine)