परमार्थाम्बुधौ स्फारे राम सर्गतरङ्गकाः । भूयो भूयोऽनुवर्तन्ते त एवाऽन्ये च भूरिशः ॥ १९ ॥
paramārthāmbudhau sphārē rāma sargataraṅgakāḥ | bhūyō bhūyō’nuvartantē ta ēvā’nyē ca bhūriśaḥ || 19 ||
Translation
Rāma, in the vast ocean of the highest truth the little waves of creation roll on again and again, the same ones and many others.
Word by word
- paramārtha
- of the highest truth
- ambudhau
- in the ocean
- sphārē
- vast
- rāma
- Rāma
- sarga
- of creation
- taraṅgakāḥ
- the little waves
- bhūyō
- (bhūyaḥ) again; (bhūyaḥ) and again
- anuvartantē
- roll on
- ta
- (te) the
- ēva
- same ones
- anyē
- others
- ca
- and
- bhūriśaḥ
- many
Meaning
Ignorance was a river; the highest truth (paramārtha) is the ocean on which its waves rise. Creations roll on (anuvartante) again and again, some the same as before (ta eva), many others new. The commentary: in the vast ocean of the supreme reality, old and new creations circle in great numbers, arising and dissolving. The ocean is the ground of everything that ignorance imagines, the commentary says; nothing can be imagined that does not rest on it. This prepares the answer to Rāma's question: if creations repeat, so do the beings in them.