Devanagari
ज्वरामयार्तस्य यथागदं सत्
निदाघदग्धस्य यथा हिमाम्भ: ।
कुदेहमानाहिविदष्टदृष्टे:
ब्रह्मन् वचस्तेऽमृतमौषधं मे ॥ २ ॥
Verse text
jvarāmayārtasya yathāgadaṁ sat
nidāgha-dagdhasya yathā himāmbhaḥ
kudeha-mānāhi-vidaṣṭa-dṛṣṭeḥ
brahman vacas te ’mṛtam auṣadhaṁ me
Synonyms
jvara
—
of a fever
;
āmaya
—
by the disease
;
ārtasya
—
of a distressed person
;
yathā
—
just as
;
agadam
—
the medicine
;
sat
—
right
;
nidāgha
—
dagdhasya — of one scorched by the heat of the sun
;
yathā
—
just as
;
hima
—
ambhaḥ — very cold water
;
ku
—
deha — in this body made of matter and full of dirty things such as stool and urine
;
māna
—
of pride
;
ahi
—
by the serpent
;
vidaṣṭa
—
bitten
;
dṛṣṭeḥ
—
of one whose vision
;
brahman
—
O best of the brāhmaṇas
;
vacaḥ
—
words
;
te
—
your
;
amṛtam
—
nectar
;
auṣadham
—
medicine
;
me
—
for me .
Translation
O best of the brāhmaṇas, my body is filled with dirty things, and my vision has been bitten by the serpent of pride. Due to my material conceptions, I am diseased. Your nectarean instructions are the proper medicine for one suffering from such a fever, and they are cooling waters for one scorched by the heat.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
O brāhmaṇa! Your words are my medicine, just as correct medicine cures a person suffering from fever, or ice water relieves a person burned by the summer sun. Your words are nectar.
My vision has been bitten seriously by the snake of false identity with the despicable body. O brāhmaṇa! Your words are medicine (agadam). An example is given. On the grounds that this example is not always true (medicine does not always cure) another example is given. If the example of medicine is unsatisfactory, then the words of Bharata are compared to nectar.
Purport
The conditioned soul has a body full of dirty things — bones, blood, urine, stool and so forth. Nonetheless, the most intelligent men in this material world think they are these combinations of blood, bone, urine and stool. If this is so, why can’t other intelligent men be made with these ingredients, which are so readily available? The entire world is going on under the bodily conception and creating a hellish condition unfit for any gentleman’s living. The instructions given to King Rahūgaṇa by Jaḍa Bharata are very valuable. They are like the medicine that can save one from a snakebite. The Vedic instructions are like nectar and cool water for one suffering from scorching heat.