योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-11, verse-9

विषं विषत्वमजहद्यथा स्वान्तः कृमिः क्रमात् ।
न जायते न म्रियते म्रियतेऽपि च जायते ॥ ९ ॥

viṣaṃ viṣatvamajahadyathā svāntaḥ kṛmiḥ kramāt ,
na jāyate na mriyate mriyate'pi ca jāyate 9

9. viṣam viṣatvam a-jahat yathā sva-antaḥ kṛmiḥ
kramāt na jāyate na mriyate mriyate api ca jāyate

9. yathā viṣam viṣatvam ajahat sva-antaḥ kṛmiḥ kramāt; na jāyate,
na mriyate,
api ca mriyate jāyate.

9. Just as poison, without abandoning its poisonous nature, gradually produces a worm within itself, so too, (the individual soul or its experience) is neither born nor does it die, yet it dies and is also born.

Words meanings summery:

• विषम् (viṣam) - poison

• विषत्वम् (viṣatvam) - poisonous nature, quality of poison

• अ-जहत् (a-jahat) - not abandoning, not leaving

• यथा (yathā) - introduces a comparison (as, just as, in which way)

• स्व-अन्तः (sva-antaḥ) - within itself, inside oneself

• कृमिः (kṛmiḥ) - worm, insect

• क्रमात् (kramāt) - gradually, in due course, successively

• न (na) - not

• जायते (jāyate) - is born, originates

• न (na) - not

• म्रियते (mriyate) - dies

• म्रियते (mriyate) - dies

• अपि (api) - meaning 'and yet' (also, even, though)

• च (ca) - and, also

• जायते (jāyate) - is born, originates

Words meanings and morphology

विषम् (viṣam) - poison

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of viṣa

viṣa - poison, venom

विषत्वम् (viṣatvam) - poisonous nature, quality of poison

(noun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of viṣatva

viṣatva - poisonous nature, quality of poison

from viṣa + -tva (suffix for 'ness' or 'hood')

अ-जहत् (a-jahat) - not abandoning, not leaving

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of a-jahat

a-jahat - not abandoning, not leaving

Present Active Participle

from root hā- (to abandon) with prefix a- (not); the root hā takes 'j' in present stem.

Prefix: a

Root: hā (class 3)

Note: Agrees with 'viṣam' (implied as subject of the participle).

यथा (yathā) - introduces a comparison (as, just as, in which way)

(indeclinable)

स्व-अन्तः (sva-antaḥ) - within itself, inside oneself

(indeclinable)

Compound type : tatpuruṣa (sva+antas)

• sva – own, self
  pronoun (neuter)
• antas – inside, within
  indeclinable

Note: Used adverbially here.

कृमिः (kṛmiḥ) - worm, insect

(noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of kṛmi

kṛmi - worm, insect

क्रमात् (kramāt) - gradually, in due course, successively

(indeclinable)

Root: kram (class 1)

Note: Used adverbially.

न (na) - not

(indeclinable)

जायते (jāyate) - is born, originates

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (lat) of jan

Present Middle Indicative

Root: jan (class 4)

न (na) - not

(indeclinable)

म्रियते (mriyate) - dies

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (lat) of mṛ

Present Middle Indicative

Root: mṛ (class 6)

म्रियते (mriyate) - dies

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (lat) of mṛ

Present Middle Indicative

Root: mṛ (class 6)

अपि (api) - meaning 'and yet' (also, even, though)

(indeclinable)

च (ca) - and, also

(indeclinable)

जायते (jāyate) - is born, originates

(verb)

3rd person , singular, middle, present (lat) of jan

Present Middle Indicative

Root: jan (class 4)