योगवासिष्ठः yogavāsiṣṭhaḥ - book-7, chapter-99, verse-10

देशकालक्रियाद्रव्यव्यग्रया जर्जरीकृतम् ।
क्षीयते व्रणकीटानामस्माकमिव जीवितम् ॥ १० ॥

deśakālakriyādravyavyagrayā jarjarīkṛtam ,
kṣīyate vraṇakīṭānāmasmākamiva jīvitam 10

10. deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagrayā jarjarīkṛtam
kṣīyate vraṇa-kīṭānām asmākam iva jīvitam

10. vraṇa-kīṭānām iva asmākam jīvitam
deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagrayā jarjarīkṛtam [sat] kṣīyate

10. Just as the life of worms (kṛmi) in a wound is worn out and wastes away, so too our life (jīvitam) is consumed by the mind's preoccupation with place, time, actions, and material things.

Words meanings summery:

• देश-काल-क्रिया-द्रव्य-व्यग्रया (deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagrayā) - by the preoccupation with place, time, action, and material things

• जर्जरीकृतम् (jarjarīkṛtam) - made worn out, wasted, decrepit

• क्षीयते (kṣīyate) - wastes away, diminishes, decays

• व्रण-कीटानाम् (vraṇa-kīṭānām) - of wound-worms

• अस्माकम् (asmākam) - of us, our

• इव (iva) - like, as, as if

• जीवितम् (jīvitam) - life, living

Words meanings and morphology

देश-काल-क्रिया-द्रव्य-व्यग्रया (deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagrayā) - by the preoccupation with place, time, action, and material things

(adjective)

Instrumental, feminine, singular of deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagra

deśa-kāla-kriyā-dravya-vyagra - preoccupied/agitated (vyagra) with place (deśa), time (kāla), action (kriyā), and material things (dravya)

Compound type : bahuvrīhi (deśa+kāla+kriyā+dravya+vyagra)

• deśa – place, region
  noun (masculine)
• kāla – time
  noun (masculine)
• kriyā – action, activity
  noun (feminine)
  from √kṛ
  Root: kṛ (class 8)
• dravya – material thing, substance, wealth
  noun (neuter)
  from √dru
  Root: dru (class 1)
• vyagra – preoccupied, agitated, eager
  adjective (masculine)
  from vi-agra
  Prefix: vi
  Root: agr

Note: It qualifies an implied feminine noun such as 'cintayā' (by worry) or 'pravṛttyā' (by activity/tendency).

जर्जरीकृतम् (jarjarīkṛtam) - made worn out, wasted, decrepit

(adjective)

Nominative, neuter, singular of jarjarīkṛta

jarjarīkṛta - made decrepit, worn out, wasted

Past Passive Participle

Derived from 'jarjara' (decrepit) + 'kṛ' (to make).

Compound type : karmadhāraya (jarjara+kṛta)

• jarjara – decrepit, old, worn out
  adjective (masculine)
• kṛta – made, done
  adjective (neuter)
  Past Passive Participle
  from √kṛ
  Root: kṛ (class 8)

Note: Qualifies `jīvitam`.

क्षीयते (kṣīyate) - wastes away, diminishes, decays

(verb)

3rd person , singular, passive, present (laṭ) of kṣi

present passive

Passive form of √kṣi (4A)

Root: kṣi (class 4)

Note: Verb for `jīvitam`.

व्रण-कीटानाम् (vraṇa-kīṭānām) - of wound-worms

(noun)

Genitive, masculine, plural of vraṇa-kīṭa

vraṇa-kīṭa - worm of a wound

Compound type : ṣaṣṭhī-tatpuruṣa (vraṇa+kīṭa)

• vraṇa – wound, sore
  noun (masculine)
• kīṭa – worm, insect
  noun (masculine)

Note: Part of the comparison 'like the life of wound-worms'.

अस्माकम् (asmākam) - of us, our

(pronoun)

Genitive, plural of asmad

asmad - I, we (first person pronoun stem)

Note: Possessive.

इव (iva) - like, as, as if

(indeclinable)

Note: Particle of comparison.

जीवितम् (jīvitam) - life, living

(noun)

Nominative, neuter, singular of jīvita

jīvita - life, living, vitality

Past Passive Participle (used as noun)

from √jīv

Root: jīv (class 1)

Note: Subject of the sentence.