अत: कविर्नामसु यावदर्थ: स्यादप्रमत्तो व्यवसायबुद्धि: । सिद्धेऽन्यथार्थे न यतेत तत्र परिश्रमं तत्र समीक्षमाण: ॥ ३ ॥
atah kavir namasu yavad arthah syad apramatto vyavasaya-buddhih siddhe ’nyatharthe na yateta tatra parisramam tatra samiksamanah
- atah
- for this reason
- kavih
- the enlightened person
- namasu
- in names only
- yavat
- minimum
- arthah
- necessity
- syat
- must be
- apramattah
- without being mad after them
- vyavasaya-buddhih
- intelligently fixed
- siddhe
- for success
- anyatha
- otherwise
- arthe
- in the interest of
- na
- should never
- yateta
- endeavor for
- tatra
- there
- parisramam
- laboring hard
- tatra
- there
- samiksamanah
- one who sees practically.
For this reason the enlightened person should endeavor only for the minimum necessities of life while in the world of names. He should be intelligently fixed and never endeavor for unwanted things, being competent to perceive practically that all such endeavors are merely hard labor for nothing.