Verse Text
yathā –
kleśe kramāt paṣca-vidhe kṣayaṁ gate
yad-brahma-saukhyaṁ svayam asphurat param |
tad vyarthayan kaḥ purato narākṛtiḥ
śyāmo ’yam āmoda-bharaḥ prakāśate ||188||
Translation
Who is that person standing before us, revealing a human form, black in color, full of bliss, who even covers the happiness of brahman which appears spontaneously after the five types of suffering have been destroyed?
Purport (Jiva Goswami)
The five types of suffering are ignorance (avidyā), false identity (asmitā), attraction (rāga), hatred (dveṣa) and clinging to life (abhiniveśa). These are mentioned in the Yoga-sūtra 2.3 of Pataṣjali. Vyarthayan means “covering.”