Verse 586

Tap any word for its meaning.

US-P18.176ab ।US-P18.176cd ॥

In plain words

Hear a sentence, and each word as it is heard calls its own meaning to mind. Then, by co-presence and absence — what holds when this word is there, what falls away when it is not — the meaning of the whole sentence dawns.

Close to the Sanskrit

For in a sentence, of the words being heard there is a recollection of their meanings; from that, by co-presence and absence, comes the awakening of the sentence's meaning.