आतिवाहिकनाम्नाऽन्तः स्वहृद्येव जगत्त्रयम् । व्योम्नि चित्तशरीरेण व्योमात्माऽनुभवत्यजः ॥ ९ ॥
ātivāhikanāmnā’ntaḥ svahṛdyēva jagattrayam | vyōmni cittaśarīrēṇa vyōmātmā’nubhavatyajaḥ || 9 ||
Translation
Within, in its own heart, the unborn one, whose self is space, experiences the three worlds in space, by the body of mind called the conveying body.
Word by word
- ātivāhika
- conveying body
- nāmnā
- called
- antaḥ
- within
- sva
- its own
- hṛdy
- (hṛdi) in heart
- ēva
- indeed
- jagat
- worlds
- trayam
- the three
- vyōmni
- in space
- citta
- of mind
- śarīrēṇa
- by the body
- vyōma
- is space
- ātmā
- whose self
- anubhavaty
- (anubhavati) experiences
- ajaḥ
- the unborn one
Meaning
The vehicle of that seeing is the ātivāhika, the "conveying" or subtle body, here called the body of mind (citta-śarīra). The commentary lists it: mind, ego, intellect, the ten senses and the breaths, a body made of latent impressions. With it, the Self, which is unborn (aja) and in truth is space-like consciousness, experiences the three worlds inside its own heart (sva-hṛdi). The commentary meets an objection: do the scriptures not describe the soul leaving the body by the eye or the crown? Those passages, it says, speak from the standpoint of ritual and worship; from the standpoint of truth, the Upaniṣad says "heaven and earth are both placed within this space of the heart." The Self being all-pervading, its "heart" is unlimited, and going to another world is only imagined there. The reader may find this the first deep statement of the work's idealism: every world, this one included, is seen from within.