Upanishads · Mahā 6.49
॥
Devanāgarī
हर्षामर्षभयक्रोधकामकार्पण्यदृष्टिभिः न हृष्यति ग्लायति यः परामर्शविवर्जितः
Transliteration (IAST)
harṣāmarṣabhayakrodhakāmakārpaṇyadṛṣṭibhiḥ na hṛṣyati glāyati yaḥ parāmarśavivarjitaḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
हर्ष-अमर्ष-भय-क्रोधharṣa-amarṣa-bhaya-krodhaby exultation, impatience, fear, wrath; by rapture, vexation, dread, fury
काम-कार्पण्य-दृष्टिभिःkāma-kārpaṇya-dṛṣṭibhiḥby desire, by the pauper's outlook; by craving and by beggarliness of view
न हृष्यति ग्लायति यःna hṛṣyati glāyati yaḥwho neither exults nor droops; who is neither transported nor withered
परामर्श-विवर्जितःparāmarśa-vivarjitaḥbeing free of rumination; being void of the backward musing
Translation
“Who at exultation, impatience, fear, wrath, desire and beggarliness of outlook neither exults nor droops, being free of rumination…”
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The third repetition: 2.44 and 2.43 are joined.
The six passions listed are the same, and all said of them there stands; especially of kārpaṇya, “beggarliness”, as the root of the rest.
Note the new word at the end: parāmarśa-vivarjita — “free of rumination”.
Parāmarśa — “retrospective consideration, thinking back”. It occurred in 5.16, where by it a dream was recognized.
Here it is rejected: the man does not chew over what has happened.
This is an addition to the earlier marks, and an exact one. We suffer not so much from events as from the long conversations we hold with them afterwards.