अहो कष्टं भ्रातर्व्यक्तमुरुपरिश्रान्तो दीर्घमध्वानमेक एव ऊहिवान् सुचिरं नातिपीवा न संहननाङ्गो जरसा चोपद्रुतो भवान् सखे नो एवापर एते सङ्घट्टिन इति बहुविप्रलब्धोऽप्यविद्यया रचितद्रव्यगुणकर्माशयस्वचरमकलेवरेऽवस्तुनि संस्थानविशेषेऽहं ममेत्यनध्यारोपितमिथ्याप्रत्ययो ब्रह्मभूतस्तूष्णीं शिबिकां पूर्ववदुवाह ॥ ६ ॥
aho kastam bhratar vyaktam uru-parisranto dirgham adhvanam eka eva uhivan suciram nati-piva na samhananango jarasa copadruto bhavan sakhe no evapara ete sanghattina iti bahu-vipralabdho ’py avidyaya racita-dravya-guna-karmasaya-sva-carama-kalevare ’vastuni samsthana-visese ’ham mamety anadhyaropita-mithya-pratyayo brahma-bhutas tusnim sibikam purvavad uvaha.
- aho
- alas
- kastam
- how troublesome it is
- bhratah
- my dear brother
- vyaktam
- clearly
- uru
- very much
- parisrantah
- fatigued
- dirgham
- a long
- adhvanam
- path
- ekah
- alone
- eva
- certainly
- uhivan
- you have carried
- su-ciram
- for a long time
- na
- not
- ati-piva
- very strong and stout
- na
- nor
- samhanana-angah
- having a firm, tolerant body
- jarasa
- by old age
- ca
- also
- upadrutah
- disturbed
- bhavan
- yourself
- sakhe
- my friend
- no eva
- not certainly
- apare
- the other
- ete
- all these
- sanghattinah
- co-workers
- iti
- thus
- bahu
- very much
- vipralabdhah
- sarcastically criticized
- api
- although
- avidyaya
- by nescience
- racita
- manufactured
- dravya-guna-karma-asaya
- in a combination of material elements, material qualities, and the results of past activities and desires
- sva-carama-kalevare
- in the body, which is moved by the subtle elements (mind, intelligence and ego)
- avastuni
- in such physical things
- samsthana-visese
- having a particular disposition
- aham mama
- I and mine
- iti
- in this way
- anadhyaropita
- not interposed
- mithya
- false
- pratyayah
- belief
- brahma-bhutah
- who was self-realized, standing on the Brahman platform
- tusnim
- being silent
- sibikam
- the palanquin
- purva-vat
- as before
- uvaha
- carried
King Rahugana told Jada Bharata: How troublesome this is, my dear brother. You certainly appear very fatigued because you have carried this palanquin alone without assistance for a long time and for a long distance. Besides that, due to your old age you have become greatly troubled. My dear friend, I see that you are not very firm, nor very strong and stout. Aren’t your fellow carriers cooperating with you? In this way the King criticized Jada Bharata with sarcastic words, yet despite being criticized in this way, Jada Bharata had no bodily conception of the situation. He knew that he was not the body, for he had attained his spiritual identity. He was neither fat, lean nor thin, nor had he anything to do with a lump of matter, a combination of the five gross and three subtle elements. He had nothing to do with the material body and its two hands and legs. In other words, he had completely realized his spiritual identity (aham brahmasmi). He was therefore unaffected by this sarcastic criticism from the King. Without saying anything, he continued carrying the palanquin as before.