Samadhi Pada
Sentence 9
shabda jnana anupati vastu shunyo vikalpah ||9||
शब्दज्ञानानुपाती वस्तुशून्यो विकल्पः ॥९॥
śabda-jñāna-anupātī vastu-śūnyo vikalpaḥ ||9||
Imaginings are engendered by word knowledge without regard for what actually exists in the real world. ||9||
shabda (शब्द, śabda) = (iic.) word
jnana (ज्ञान, jñāna) = (iic.) knowledge
anupati (अनुपाती, anupātī) = (acc. sg. n./nom. sg. n.) consequent upon; real
vastu (वस्तु, vastu) = (acc. sg. n./nom. sg. n.) reality; object; thing; entity
shunya (शून्य, śūnya) = (nom. sg. m.) devoid; empty; unrelated;
vikalpah (विकल्पः, vikalpaḥ) = (nom. sg. m. from vikalpa (विकल्प, vikalpa)) imagining, illusion, semantic confusion; the illusion that a semantic construct actually exists
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