JK/NKK 6
kya:h karà pa:ntsan döhan tà ka:han,
vvakSun yath lyaji yim körith gay |
sö:riy samàhan yith razi lamàhan,
adà kya:zi ra:vihe ka:han ga:v ||
What shall I do with
the five, the ten, and
the eleven?
They have all
scraped out the pot.
If they had all pulled
together on the rope,
then the eleven
would not have lost
the cow.
Note: The "five" are the five elements of earth, air, fire, water, and vacuity. The "ten" are five motor-nervous system organs (karmendri:yas) plus five senses of perception (gya:nendri:yas). The "eleven" are these ten plus the mind, which supposedly controls them. They are here visualized as masters of a single cow, which is the spiritual self with its aspirations regarding realization of the Supreme. When the cow is being pulled in many directions by these eleven masters with their individual ropes, the "pot" (either the physical body or its head) is "scraped out" by all of them (loss of energy, vitality, and concentration occurs), and the "cow" is lost, which would not have happened if all these sensory "masters" had been working together, pulling in the same direction.
ॐ नमः शिवाय ॐ
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