तत्राऽतिपरिणामेन तदेव घनतां गतम् । इह लोकोऽयमित्येव जीवाकाशे विजृम्भते ॥ १४ ॥
tatrā’tipariṇāmēna tadēva ghanatāṁ gatam | iha lōkō’yamityēva jīvākāśē vijṛmbhatē || 14 ||
Translation
There, by long familiarity, that same thing grows solid, and as "this is the world here" it unfolds in the space of the individual soul.
Word by word
- tatra
- there
- ati
- long
- pariṇāmēna
- by familiarity
- tad
- (tat) that
- ēva
- same; indeed
- ghanatāṁ
- solid
- gatam
- grows
- iha
- here
- lōkō
- (lokaḥ) the world
- ayam
- this
- ity
- (iti) as
- jīva
- of the individual soul
- ākāśē
- in the space
- vijṛmbhatē
- unfolds
Meaning
How does an imagined world come to feel solid? By pariṇāma, ripening through long familiarity. The commentary: what the soul saw in life it remembers after death, and on its next birth it experiences again; though unreal, by long acquaintance it grows firm and shines in the soul's space as "this world" (ihaloka). This explains why the world feels real: not because it is, but because we have been used to it for so long. A dream repeated every night for a lifetime would become a world. The reader may notice how much of what seems obviously real to him is real only by habit.