पङ्कादिवाऽभिरचितं सचेतनमचेतनम् । ततः स्थितिप्रकरणं चतुर्थं परिकल्पितम् ॥ २८ ॥
paṅkādivā’bhiracitaṁ sacētanamacētanam | tataḥ sthitiprakaraṇaṁ caturthaṁ parikalpitam || 28 ||
Translation
as if fashioned out of clay, conscious and unconscious. Then the fourth, the Sthiti prakaraṇa, of persistence, was composed,
Word by word
- paṅkād
- (paṅkāt) out of clay
- iva
- as if
- abhiracitaṁ
- fashioned
- sacētanam
- conscious
- acētanam
- and unconscious
- tataḥ
- then
- sthiti
- Sthiti
- prakaraṇaṁ
- prakaraṇa
- caturthaṁ
- the fourth
- parikalpitam
- was composed
Meaning
Another commentary: as a thing made of clay is truly clay, so the world imagined in Brahman by error is truly Brahman, and this is what the listener of that book comes to know. The description of the third book ends here, and the fourth, Sthiti, on how the world goes on existing, begins.