स सङ्कल्पविकल्पाद्यैः कृतनानाक्रमभ्रमैः । जगत्तया स्फुरत्यम्बुतरङ्गादितया यथा ॥ २० ॥
sa saṅkalpavikalpādyaiḥ kṛtanānākramabhramaiḥ | jagattayā sphuratyambutaraṅgāditayā yathā || 20 ||
Translation
Through thought and doubt and the rest, which make many sequences of error, he shines forth as the world, as water shines as waves and the like.
Word by word
- sa
- (saḥ) he
- saṅkalpa
- thought
- vikalpa
- and doubt
- ādyaiḥ
- and the rest
- kṛta
- which make
- nānā
- many
- krama
- sequences
- bhramaiḥ
- of error
- jagattayā
- as the world
- sphurati
- he shines forth
- ambu
- water
- taraṅga
- as waves
- āditayā
- and the like
- yathā
- as
Meaning
The commentary: as water shows itself as waves, so that same one, the consciousness called the supreme Self, without a second, eternal, all-pervading, lighting all, shows itself as the world through minds whose work is thinking and doubting, and which make many kinds of error. The wave is not something other than water that has come to it; it is water moving. The world is the witness seen through the moving of minds.