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VIVEKACHUDAMANI
आयान्ति निर्यान्त्यध ऊर्द्धमुच्चैः स्वकर्मदूतेन जवेन नीताः ॥ ७५ ॥
75. Those fools who are tied to these senseobjects by the stout cord of attachment, so very difficult to snap, come1 and depart, up and down, carried amain by the powerful emissary' of one's own action.
[1Come &c.-Become subject to birth and death and assume various bodies from those of angels to those of brutes, according to the merits of their work.
2Emissary &c.-Just as a culprit seizing things not belonging to him is put in fetters and sentenced by the royal officer in various ways, so the Jiva, oblivious of his real nature, through his attachment to sense-objects is subjected to various kinds of misery.]
शब्दादिभिः पञ्चभिरेव पञ्च
पञ्चत्वमापुः स्वगुणेन बद्धाः ।
कुरङ्गमातङ्गपतङ्गमीन
भृङ्गा नरः पञ्चभिरञ्चितः किम् ॥ ७६ ॥
76. The deer, the elephant, the moth, the fish and the black-bee-these five have died, being tied to one or other of the five senses, viz., sound etc., through their own attachment.1 What then is in store for man who is attached to all these five!
[1Own attachment-The word guna in the text means both 'a rope' and 'a tendency.']
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