संलीनासंख्यसंसारसारया स्वात्मसत्तया । उर्व्येव भारघनया निबद्धपदतां गतः ॥ ३१ ॥
saṁlīnāsaṁkhyasaṁsārasārayā svātmasattayā | urvyēva bhāraghanayā nibaddhapadatāṁ gataḥ || 31 ||
Translation
By its own being, in which countless worlds with their essence lie dissolved, it has become fixed in its place, as the earth is by the weight of its mass.
Word by word
- saṁlīna
- lie dissolved
- asaṁkhya
- countless
- saṁsāra
- worlds
- sārayā
- with their essence
- sva
- its own
- ātma
- self
- sattayā
- by being
- urvyā
- the earth
- iva
- as
- bhāra
- of its weight
- ghanayā
- by the mass
- nibaddha
- fixed
- padatāṁ
- in its place
- gataḥ
- it has become
Meaning
The earth is held still by its own heaviness. Time is held still by its own existence, in which all worlds have dissolved, another commentary says. The verse turns the restless destroyer into something immovable. the commentaries both say: by dissolving everything into itself, it reaches a firm standing. The reader is brought to the paradox at the heart of Time: endless change on an unmoving ground.