योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-105, verse-12

प्रजायते वाऽजातोऽपि वन्ध्यायास्तनयो यथा ।
जातोऽप्यजात एवास्ते यथात्ममृतिविस्मृतौ ॥ १२ ॥

prajāyate vā'jāto'pi vandhyāyāstanayo yathā ,
jāto'pyajāta evāste yathātmamṛtivismṛtau 12

12. prajāyate vā ajātaḥ api vandhyāyāḥ tanayaḥ yathā
jātaḥ api ajātaḥ eva āste yathā ātmamṛtivismṛtau

12. ajātaḥ api vā vandhyāyāḥ tanayaḥ yathā prajāyatejātaḥ api ajātaḥ eva āste,
yathā ātmamṛtivismṛtau।

12. Or, though unborn, it comes into being, just like the son of a barren woman. And though born, it remains as if unborn, just as (the concept of) the death of the (ātman) self is forgotten (because it is fundamentally non-existent).

Words meanings summery:

• प्रजायते (prajāyate) - is born, comes into being, originates

• वा (vā) - or, either... or

• अजातः (ajātaḥ) - unborn, not born

• अपि (api) - even, though

• वन्ध्यायाः (vandhyāyāḥ) - of a barren woman

• तनयः (tanayaḥ) - son, offspring

• यथा (yathā) - just as, like, as

• जातः (jātaḥ) - born, produced, arisen

• अपि (api) - even, though

• अजातः (ajātaḥ) - unborn, not born

• एव (eva) - indeed, only, just

• आस्ते (āste) - remains, stays, exists, sits

• यथा (yathā) - just as, like, as

• आत्ममृतिविस्मृतौ (ātmamṛtivismṛtau) - referring to the state of realizing the self (ātman) is immortal and thus not subject to death, making the concept of its death irrelevant or forgotten. (in the forgetting of the (ātman) self's death)

Words meanings and morphology

प्रजायते (prajāyate) - is born, comes into being, originates

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (laṭ) of pra-√jan

Present Indicative

3rd person singular, present tense, middle voice (ātmanepada). Root form pra-jan- (to be born, come into being).

Prefix: pra

Root: jan (class 4)

वा (vā) - or, either... or

(indeclinable)

अजातः (ajātaḥ) - unborn, not born

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ajāta

ajāta - unborn, not produced, not created

Past Passive Participle with negative prefix

Formed from root √jan (to be born) with negative prefix 'a-'.

Compound type : nañ-tatpuruṣa (a+jāta)

• a – not, non-, un-
  indeclinable
• jāta – born, produced, arisen
  adjective
  Past Passive Participle
  From root √jan.
  Root: jan (class 4)

अपि (api) - even, though

(indeclinable)

वन्ध्यायाः (vandhyāyāḥ) - of a barren woman

(noun)

Genitive, feminine, singular of vandhyā

vandhyā - barren woman, sterile

तनयः (tanayaḥ) - son, offspring

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of tanaya

tanaya - son, offspring, descendant

Derived from root √tan (to stretch, to produce).

Root: tan (class 8)

यथा (yathā) - just as, like, as

(indeclinable)

जातः (jātaḥ) - born, produced, arisen

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of jāta

jāta - born, produced, arisen, happened

Past Passive Participle

From root √jan (to be born).

Root: jan (class 4)

अपि (api) - even, though

(indeclinable)

अजातः (ajātaḥ) - unborn, not born

(adjective)

Nominative, masculine, singular of ajāta

ajāta - unborn, not produced, not created

Past Passive Participle with negative prefix

Formed from root √jan (to be born) with negative prefix 'a-'.

Compound type : nañ-tatpuruṣa (a+jāta)

• a – not, non-, un-
  indeclinable
• jāta – born, produced, arisen
  adjective
  Past Passive Participle
  From root √jan.
  Root: jan (class 4)

एव (eva) - indeed, only, just

(indeclinable)

आस्ते (āste) - remains, stays, exists, sits

(verb)

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

Present Indicative

3rd person singular, present tense, middle voice (ātmanepada).

Root: ās (class 2)

यथा (yathā) - just as, like, as

(indeclinable)

आत्ममृतिविस्मृतौ (ātmamṛtivismṛtau) - referring to the state of realizing the self (ātman) is immortal and thus not subject to death, making the concept of its death irrelevant or forgotten. (in the forgetting of the (ātman) self's death)

(noun)

Locative, feminine, singular of ātmamṛtivismṛti

ātmamṛtivismṛti - forgetting of the self's death, oblivion of one's own death

Compound type : ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (ātman+mṛti+vismṛti)

• ātman – self, soul, spirit, essence
  noun (masculine)
  Root: at (class 1)
• mṛti – death, dying
  noun (feminine)
  Derived from root √mṛ (to die).
  Root: mṛ (class 6)
• vismṛti – forgetting, oblivion, loss of memory
  noun (feminine)
  Derived from root √smṛ (to remember) with prefix vi-.
  Prefix: vi
  Root: smṛ (class 1)