इदं प्रमार्जितं दृश्यं मया चाऽत्राऽहमास्थितः । एतदेवाऽक्षयं बीजं समाधौ संसृतिस्मृतेः ॥ ३२ ॥
idaṁ pramārjitaṁ dṛśyaṁ mayā cā’trā’hamāsthitaḥ | ētadēvā’kṣayaṁ bījaṁ samādhau saṁsṛtismṛtēḥ || 32 ||
Translation
"I have wiped away this seen world, and here I stay": this very thought, in trance, is the undying seed of remembering saṁsāra.
Word by word
- idaṁ
- this
- pramārjitaṁ
- have wiped away
- dṛśyaṁ
- seen world
- mayā
- by me
- ca
- and
- atra
- here
- aham
- I
- āsthitaḥ
- stay
- ētad
- this
- ēva
- very
- akṣayaṁ
- undying
- bījaṁ
- the seed
- samādhau
- in trance
- saṁsṛti
- of saṁsāra
- smṛtēḥ
- of remembering
Meaning
The commentary turns to trance without knowledge, which some think can wipe out the seen. "I have cleared the world away and I rest here in samādhi" is itself a memory of the world, the seed that does not die. What is not remembered cannot be wiped away, and if it is remembered, the trance is broken. The world one has carefully removed is still there in the thought of having removed it.