एकेनैव निमेषेण किञ्चिदुत्थापयत्यलम् । किञ्चिद्विनाशयत्युच्चैर्मनोराज्यवदाततः ॥ १७ ॥
ēkēnaiva nimēṣēṇa kiñcidutthāpayatyalam | kiñcidvināśayatyuccairmanōrājyavadātataḥ || 17 ||
Translation
In a single blink it raises something up fully, and something else it destroys utterly: it is vast like a kingdom of the mind.
Word by word
- ēkēna
- in a single
- ēva
- just
- nimēṣēṇa
- blink
- kiñcid
- (kiñcit) something
- utthāpayati
- it raises up
- alam
- fully
- vināśayati
- it destroys
- uccair
- (uccaiḥ) utterly
- manōrājyavad
- (manorājyavat) like a kingdom of the mind
- ātataḥ
- vast
Meaning
A daydream (manorājya, "kingdom of the mind") builds a palace in a moment and tears it down the next. Time does the same with the world. The comparison is important: Time works like the imagining mind. The reader is again pointed towards the teaching that the world and the mind are one.