कारणं त्वविचारोत्थजीवस्याऽसदपि स्थितम् । सदिवाऽस्यां जगद्रूपं प्रकृतौ व्यक्तिमागतम् ॥ २२ ॥
kāraṇaṁ tvavicārōtthajīvasyā’sadapi sthitam | sadivā’syāṁ jagadrūpaṁ prakṛtau vyaktimāgatam || 22 ||
Translation
And the cause, which arises from the jīva's want of inquiry, stands as though real though it is unreal; in this nature, the form of the world has come into view.
Word by word
- kāraṇaṁ
- the cause
- tu
- and
- avicāra
- from want of inquiry
- uttha
- which arises
- jīvasya
- of the jīva
- asat
- unreal
- api
- though
- sthitam
- stands
- sat
- real
- iva
- as though
- asyāṁ
- in this
- jagad
- of the world
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- prakṛtau
- nature
- vyaktim
- into view
- āgatam
- has come
Meaning
The commentary meets the difficulty at once: in one and the same thing, being an effect and being a cause cannot both be real. Yet in the witnessing consciousness causality arises from want of inquiry, that is, from ignorance, and so it is not real, though to the jīva it seems so. In this nature (prakṛti), which is the Self joined with ignorance, the world has become manifest; so the world is superimposed. The verse does not deny the world's appearance; it denies that its cause is anything more than an unexamined seeming.