फलान्तं चानुभूतं यद्युक्तं कर्त्रादिकारकैः । स्मर्यमाणं हि कर्मस्थं पूर्वं कर्मैव तत्ततः ॥
phalāntaṃ cānubhūtaṃ yadyuktaṃ kartrādikārakaiḥ | smaryamāṇaṃ hi karmasthaṃ pūrvaṃ karmaiva tattataḥ ||
And what was experienced through to its result, bound up with the agent and the other factors of action, when it is remembered stands as an object of action; therefore it was, earlier too, nothing but an action.
और जिसका अनुभव फल तक हुआ, जो कर्ता आदि कारकों से जुड़ा था, वह जब स्मरण किया जाता है तो कर्म का विषय बनकर रहता है; इसलिए वह पहले भी केवल एक कर्म ही था।
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
Every experience, with its doer, its means and its outcome, was an event in the mind. Events come and go; the awareness in which they happened is not one of them.
हर अनुभव, अपने कर्ता, साधन और परिणाम के साथ, मन में घटी एक घटना था। घटनाएँ आती-जाती हैं; जिस चेतना में वे घटीं, वह उनमें से एक नहीं है।
Continuing the analysis of memory, Shankaracharya argues that an experience, which involved an agent, instruments and a result, was itself an action of the mind, not of the changeless Self.