न्यायेनाऽनेन लोकेऽस्मिन्सर्गे ब्रह्माम्बरे सति । किमिदं कस्य कुत्रेति चोद्यमूचे निराकृतम् ॥ २ ॥
nyāyēnā’nēna lōkē’sminsargē brahmāmbarē sati | kimidaṁ kasya kutrēti cōdyamūcē nirākṛtam || 2 ||
Translation
By this reasoning, since in this world creation is the space of Brahman, the question you asked, "What is this, whose is it, where is it?", is answered.
Word by word
- nyāyēna
- by reasoning
- anēna
- this
- lōkē
- world
- asmin
- in this
- sargē
- since creation
- brahma
- of Brahman
- ambarē
- is the space
- sati
- being
- kim
- what
- idaṁ
- this
- kasya
- whose
- kutra
- where
- iti
- "
- cōdyam
- the question
- ūcē
- you asked
- nirākṛtam
- is answered
Meaning
The commentary recalls the question Rāma asked in the first book (1.12.17 and around it): what is this world, what comes into being and grows and perishes, whose is it and where does it stand? By the reasoning shown in brief and to be shown at length, that what is superimposed has no existence apart from its ground, the whole creation is Brahman, and when creation is taken back, Brahman alone remains. The difficulty that the real cannot perish and the unreal cannot arise falls away by itself: the real is not said to perish, and what perishes is not said to be real.