स तथाभूत एवाऽऽत्मा स्वयमन्य इवोल्लसन् । जीवतामुपयातीव भाविनाम्ना कदर्थिताम् ॥ १३ ॥
sa tathābhūta ēvā’’tmā svayamanya ivōllasan | jīvatāmupayātīva bhāvināmnā kadarthitām || 13 ||
Translation
That same Self, being so, shining forth of itself as though it were another, comes as it were to the state of a jīva, degraded by the name it is about to bear.
Word by word
- sa
- (saḥ) that
- tathābhūta
- being so
- ēva
- same
- ātmā
- Self
- svayam
- of itself
- anya
- another
- iva
- as though; as it were
- ullasan
- shining forth
- jīvatām
- the state of a jīva
- upayāti
- comes
- bhāvi
- it is about to bear
- nāmnā
- by the name
- kadarthitām
- degraded
Meaning
The commentary: now the false state of the collective jīva at the start of creation. Consciousness, that same Self, through ignorance seems other and inert, as it were; as space and the rest arise in order, it becomes the collective subtle body and, entering it and taking it as "I", seems to be that. So it seems to reach, through error, the state of a jīva, made lowly by the name "jīva" it will bear. "As it were" is said twice: it does not become another, and it does not truly become a jīva.