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.

9. כשם שרעל, מבלי לנטוש את טבעו כרעל, מוליד בהדרגה תולעת בתוכו – היא אינה נולדת ואינה מתה, ובכל זאת מתה ונולדת.

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)

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