सति त्वस्मिन्कुतो दृश्ये निर्विकल्पसमाधिता । समाधौ चेतनत्वं तु तुर्यं चाऽप्युपपद्यते ॥ ३३ ॥
sati tvasminkutō dṛśyē nirvikalpasamādhitā | samādhau cētanatvaṁ tu turyaṁ cā’pyupapadyatē || 33 ||
Translation
While this seen world remains, how can there be trance without thought? Only in that trance are awareness and the fourth state possible.
Word by word
- sati
- while remains
- tu
- but
- asmin
- this
- kutō
- (kutaḥ) how
- dṛśyē
- seen world
- nirvikalpa
- without thought
- samādhitā
- trance
- samādhau
- in that trance
- cētanatvaṁ
- awareness
- turyaṁ
- the fourth state
- ca
- and
- api
- only
- upapadyatē
- are possible
Meaning
The commentary: while the seen world stands, the trance without thought (nirvikalpa samādhi) cannot happen. Only when that samādhi comes, with the mind standing as awareness and then the mind itself undone, is the fourth state reached. Where the seen remains, there is no room for that trance at all. The argument closes a circle: the trance that would remove the seen needs the seen already removed.