Bhaja Govindam - Sloka 2

Mooda – Oh! Fool

Jahihi – You destroy / give-up

Dhanagamatrshnam – Desire / Thirst for earning more wealth

Kuru – Do / Cultivate

Satbuddhim – the thought of the Self

Manasi – and in the mind

Vitrshnam – dispassion

Yat – That whatever

Labhase- You gain / attain

Nijakarmopattam – through the your acquired karmas (from the past births)

Vittam – with that wealth

Vinodaya – Satisfy / be happy

Chittam – in your mind.

Oh! Fool give-up all the desire for the thirst of earning more wealth and start to cultivate the thought abot the self with dispassion for the worldly things. And whatever wealth you attain as the result of the karmas you have performed in your previous lives / births, be satisfied with that.

Since this person is involved in the experience of the objects of the world, and the activities of the world with the understanding the true nature of his self being a non-experience and non-doer Acharya calls him a mooda - idiot / fool. Oh you fool, and give up completely the desire for accumulating more and more of the worldly wealth. Jahihi cannot be separated as Jahi + iha (destroy here), but the from root Ohak tyage, ha gets Lit suffix and doubled, the former ha becomes Ja and jahi + si, acoording to the sutra “serhyapicca” of Sri Panini, si becomes hi – Jahihi.

 Here, normally people ask to not do something, and they never say what should be done. That doubt is not left here without an answer. Therefore following this advice of giving-up of the desire, Acharya says kuru sadbuddhim - cultivate the thoughts on the self.

 Now there may be a doubt, Now, I have gained the desire for self; can I with it have the desire for accumulation for wealth? This is negated with another reiteration of the same advice; manasi vitrshna - cultivate also the dispassion for the worldly objects. Because here, with the first advice of giving up of desire for accumulating wealth though the dispassion is said still one should not think of having the desire for world and the knowledge can go hand-in-hand.

 Since now I have gained the dispassion and also acquired the desire for the knowledge, should they not experienced anything, like eating etc. which are the minimum requirements of the body if be asked? The answer to this is, whatever you gain because of your past karmas, with that wealth satisfy your mind or happily enjoy.

 This is a very key is stanza, the stanzas from 3 to 8 is an explanation to the words Dhanagamatrshnam and Manasi Vitrshnam. And the stanza 9 is an explanation to the word Satbuddhim.