न खिद्यते नाऽऽद्रियते नाऽऽयाति न च गच्छति । नाऽस्तमेति न चोदेति महाकल्पशतैरपि ॥ ३२ ॥
na khidyatē nā’’driyatē nā’’yāti na ca gacchati | nā’stamēti na cōdēti mahākalpaśatairapi || 32 ||
Translation
It does not tire, it is not glad, it neither comes nor goes; it does not set and does not rise, not even in hundreds of great aeons.
Word by word
- na
- not
- khidyatē
- it does tire
- ādriyatē
- it is glad
- āyāti
- it comes
- ca
- and
- gacchati
- goes
- astam
- set
- ēti
- it does
- udēti
- does rise
- mahā
- great
- kalpa
- aeons
- śatair
- (śataiḥ) in hundreds
- api
- even
Meaning
Six negations. The commentary: in hundreds of kalpas Time is neither wearied nor pleased, neither comes nor goes, neither sets nor rises. These are the marks of what does not change. Time, seen at this depth, is no longer the flowing of moments but the changeless in which they flow. The reader may sense in this verse why the Yoga Vāsiṣṭha will later identify Time with Brahman itself.