तस्माद्यादृक् चिदाकाशमाकाशादपि निर्मलम् । तदन्तस्थं तादृगेव जगच्छब्दार्थभागपि ॥ २२ ॥
tasmādyādṛk cidākāśamākāśādapi nirmalam | tadantasthaṁ tādṛgēva jagacchabdārthabhāgapi || 22 ||
Translation
Therefore, as the space of awareness is, purer even than space, so is what lies within it, even what bears the meaning of the word "world".
Word by word
- tasmād
- (tasmāt) therefore
- yādṛk
- as
- cid
- of awareness
- ākāśam
- the space
- ākāśād
- than space
- api
- even
- nirmalam
- purer
- tad
- it
- antasthaṁ
- what lies within
- tādṛg
- (tādṛk) so
- ēva
- just
- jagat
- world
- śabda
- of the word
- artha
- the meaning
- bhāg
- bearing
Meaning
The commentary: this makes the last verse plain. The space of awareness (cidākāśa), Brahman, is formless and purer than even physical space; and the seen expanse that is the meaning of the word "world", lying within it, is formless in just the same way. Vasiṣṭha does not say the world is nothing; he says that what the word "world" refers to, when it lies in That, has the nature of That.