योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-177, verse-3

श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच ।
यद्यथा कल्पितं येन स संपश्यति तत्तथा ।
कल्पनैवान्यथा न स्यात्तादृक्कारणविच्युतेः ॥ ३ ॥

śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca ,
yadyathā kalpitaṃ yena sa saṃpaśyati tattathā ,
kalpanaivānyathā na syāttādṛkkāraṇavicyuteḥ 3

3. śrīvasiṣṭhaḥ uvāca yat yathā kalpitam yena saḥ saṃpaśyati
tat tathā kalpanā eva anyathā na syāt tādṛk kāraṇavicyuteḥ

3. Shri Vasishtha said: "Whatever is imagined by someone, in whatever way, that person perceives it in that very manner. This is because imagination (kalpanā) itself would not manifest otherwise, due to the absence of any other such cause (for a different manifestation)."

Words meanings summery:

• श्रीवसिष्ठः (śrīvasiṣṭhaḥ) - Shri Vasishtha

• उवाच (uvāca) - said (said, spoke)

• यत् (yat) - whatever (thing) (what, which)

• यथा (yathā) - in whatever way (in whatever way, as, just as)

• कल्पितम् (kalpitam) - imagined (imagined, conceived, fabricated)

• येन (yena) - by whom (by whom, by which)

• सः (saḥ) - that person, he (that one, he)

• संपश्यति (saṁpaśyati) - perceives it (perceives, sees completely)

• तत् (tat) - that (imagined thing) (that, it)

• तथा (tathā) - in that very manner (in that way, thus, so)

• कल्पना (kalpanā) - imagination (kalpanā) (imagination, conception, mental creation)

• एव (eva) - itself, alone (alone, certainly, indeed)

• अन्यथा (anyathā) - otherwise, differently

• न (na) - not

• स्यात् (syāt) - would manifest (or exist) (would be, should be, might be)

• तादृक् (tādṛk) - such (a cause) (such, of that kind)

• कारणविच्युतेः (kāraṇavicyuteḥ) - due to the absence of such a cause (i.e., imagination as the cause of appearance) (due to the absence of a cause, from the lack of a cause)

Words meanings and morphology

श्रीवसिष्ठः (śrīvasiṣṭhaḥ) - Shri Vasishtha

(proper noun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of śrīvasiṣṭha

śrīvasiṣṭha - Vasistha, a revered Vedic rishi and guru of Lord Rama

उवाच (uvāca) - said (said, spoke)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, past perfect (lit) of vac

Root: vac (class 2)

यत् (yat) - whatever (thing) (what, which)

(pronoun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of yad

yad - which, what, that (relative pronoun)

यथा (yathā) - in whatever way (in whatever way, as, just as)

(indeclinable)

कल्पितम् (kalpitam) - imagined (imagined, conceived, fabricated)

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of kalpita

kalpita - imagined, conceived, artificial, formed

Past Passive Participle

Derived from root √kḷp (to be able, to form, to imagine).

Root: kḷp (class 1)

Note: Agrees with 'yat'.

येन (yena) - by whom (by whom, by which)

(pronoun)

Instrumental, masculine, singular of yad

yad - which, what, that (relative pronoun)

सः (saḥ) - that person, he (that one, he)

(pronoun)

Nominative, masculine, singular of tad

tad - that, that one, he, she, it (demonstrative pronoun)

संपश्यति (saṁpaśyati) - perceives it (perceives, sees completely)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, present (lat) of paś

Prefix: sam

Root: dṛś (class 1)

तत् (tat) - that (imagined thing) (that, it)

(pronoun)

Accusative, neuter, singular of tad

tad - that, that one, he, she, it (demonstrative pronoun)

तथा (tathā) - in that very manner (in that way, thus, so)

(indeclinable)

कल्पना (kalpanā) - imagination (kalpanā) (imagination, conception, mental creation)

(noun)

Nominative, feminine, singular of kalpanā

kalpanā - imagination, fancy, fiction, conception, arrangement

Derived from root √kḷp (to form, to imagine).

Root: kḷp (class 1)

एव (eva) - itself, alone (alone, certainly, indeed)

(indeclinable)

अन्यथा (anyathā) - otherwise, differently

(indeclinable)

न (na) - not

(indeclinable)

स्यात् (syāt) - would manifest (or exist) (would be, should be, might be)

(verb)

3rd person , singular, active, optative (vidhiliṅ) of as

Root: as (class 2)

तादृक् (tādṛk) - such (a cause) (such, of that kind)

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of tādṛś

tādṛś - such, of that kind, similar to that

Note: Modifies 'kāraṇavicyuti'.

कारणविच्युतेः (kāraṇavicyuteḥ) - due to the absence of such a cause (i.e., imagination as the cause of appearance) (due to the absence of a cause, from the lack of a cause)

(noun)

Ablative, feminine, singular of kāraṇavicyuti

kāraṇavicyuti - absence of a cause, lack of a cause

Compound type : tatpurusha (kāraṇa+vicyuti)

• kāraṇa – cause, reason
  noun (neuter)
  Root: kṛ (class 8)
• vicyuti – absence, lack, cessation, falling off
  noun (feminine)
  Derived from vi- + √cyu (to move, fall).
  Prefix: vi
  Root: cyu (class 1)