Chapter 14
कदाचिन्मनोरथोपगतपितृपितामहाद्यसत्सदिति स्वप्ननिर्वृतिलक्षणमनुभवति ॥ १७ ॥
Transliteration
kadācin manorathopagata-pitṛ-pitāmahādy asat sad iti svapna-nirvṛti-lakṣaṇam anubhavati.
Synonyms (Word-for-Word)
kadācit — sometimes; manoratha-upagata — obtained by mental concoction; pitṛ — the father; pitā-maha-ādi — 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-nirvṛti-lakṣaṇam — the kind of happiness found in dreams; anubhavati — the conditioned soul feels.
Translation
“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.”