कदाचिन्मनोरथोपगतपितृपितामहाद्यसत्सदिति स्वप्ननिर्वृतिलक्षणमनुभवति ॥ १७ ॥
kadacin manorathopagata-pitr-pitamahady asat sad iti svapna-nirvrti-laksanam anubhavati.
- kadacit
- sometimes
- manoratha-upagata
- obtained by mental concoction
- pitr
- the father
- pita-maha-adi
- or grandfather and others
- asat
- although long dead (and although no one knows that the soul has gone)
- sat
- again the father or grandfather has come
- iti
- thus thinking
- svapna-nirvrti-laksanam
- the kind of happiness found in dreams
- anubhavati
- the conditioned soul feels.
Sometimes the conditioned soul imagines that his father or grandfather has again come in the form of his son or grandson. In this way he feels the happiness one sometimes feels in a dream, and the conditioned soul sometimes takes pleasure in such mental concoctions.