Verse 3.9.82-84

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.9.82-84:

व्यवधानमिवोपैति निवृत्त इव दृश्यते ।
क्रियासमूहो भुज्यादिरन्तरालप्रवृत्तिभिः ॥ ८२ ॥
न च विच्छिन्नरूपोऽपि सोऽविरामान्निवर्तते ।
सर्वैव हि क्रियान्येन सङ्कीर्णेवोपलभ्यते ॥ ८३ ॥
तदन्तरालदृष्टा वा सर्वैवावयवक्रिया ।
सादृश्यात् सति भेदे तु तदङ्गत्वेन गृह्यते ॥ ८४ ॥

vyavadhānamivopaiti nivṛtta iva dṛśyate |
kriyāsamūho bhujyādirantarālapravṛttibhiḥ || 82 ||
na ca vicchinnarūpo'pi so'virāmānnivartate |
sarvaiva hi kriyānyena saṅkīrṇevopalabhyate || 83 ||
tadantarāladṛṣṭā vā sarvaivāvayavakriyā |
sādṛśyāt sati bhede tu tadaṅgatvena gṛhyate || 84 ||

82. A combination of various acts like eating appears to be interrupted or stopped by other actions coming in between.

83. Though interrupted, it is not yet finished because the ultimate result is not there. All action appears to be mixed with other actions.

84. All intervening action may also be looked upon as part of the original action, because of resemblance to the other parts.

Commentary

[Actions like eating consist of many parts arranged in a sequence and these parts seem to be interrupted by totally different actions such as laughing and talking. Up to satisfaction, the action of eating is one and though other actions may come in between the parts of eating, the action of eating taken as a whole is considered uninterrupted. Only the parts are interrupted and not the whole. The whole seems to be interrupted too because one ignores the parts which are yet to come. Really speaking, the action of eating goes on till one is satisfied. Not only eating, laughing and talking can also be similarly interrupted. Even winking can be interrupted by breathing. Thus all actions seem to be mixed up with and interrupted by others, but in reality they are not, because they go on till the attainment of the fruit. Laughing and talking which come in between the parts of the act of eating must also be looked upon as parts of eating, just as sipping water etc. are so looked upon.]