निश्चलाम्बुरभूत्तूष्णीं समुद्र: शरदागमे । आत्मन्युपरते सम्यङ्मुनिर्व्युपरतागम: ॥ ४० ॥
niścalāmbur abhūt tūṣṇīṁ samudraḥ śarad-āgame ātmany uparate samyaṅ munir vyuparatāgamaḥ
- niścala
- motionless
- ambuḥ
- its water
- abhūt
- became
- tūṣnīm
- quiet
- samudraḥ
- the ocean
- śarat
- of the fall season
- āgame
- with the coming
- ātmani
- when the self
- uparate
- has desisted from material activities
- samyak
- completely
- muniḥ
- a sage
- vyuparata
- giving up
- āgamaḥ
- recitation of the Vedic mantras.
With the arrival of autumn, the ocean and the lakes became silent, their water still, just like a sage who has desisted from all material activities and given up his recitation of Vedic mantras.