रूपालोकमनस्कारपदार्थव्याकुलं जगत् । विद्यते वेदनस्याऽन्तर्वातान्तः स्पन्दनं यथा ॥ २८ ॥
rūpālōkamanaskārapadārthavyākulaṁ jagat | vidyatē vēdanasyā’ntarvātāntaḥ spandanaṁ yathā || 28 ||
Translation
The world, crowded with sights and mental notings and things, exists within knowing, as movement is within the wind.
Word by word
- rūpa
- of forms
- ālōka
- with sights
- manaskāra
- mental notings
- padārtha
- and things
- vyākulaṁ
- crowded
- jagat
- the world
- vidyatē
- exists
- vēdanasya
- of knowing
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- vāta
- the wind
- antaḥ
- within
- spandanaṁ
- movement
- yathā
- as
Meaning
The commentary first states a doubt: awareness without objects cannot move the mind, so the mind's cause must be knowing with objects, and then objects must exist before the mind moves; yet the objects were said to be made of mind, so mind must exist before them, and each depends on the other. The answer: in consciousness tinged by māyā, all things are present as impressions, held by the being of their ground, so it is what is real that shows itself. As movement belongs inside the wind, so the world belongs inside knowing. It explains the terms: "sights" (rūpāloka) are objects grasped by the outer senses, "mental notings" (manaskāra) the mind's dwelling on them, and "things" the objects of both. Another commentary says this answer removes the fault of mutual dependence.