रूपालोकमनस्कारास्तन्मया एव नेतरत् । यथास्थितमतो विश्वं सुषुप्तं तुर्यमेव वा ॥ २५ ॥
rūpālōkamanaskārāstanmayā ēva nētarat | yathāsthitamatō viśvaṁ suṣuptaṁ turyamēva vā || 25 ||
Translation
Forms, light and the mind's attending are made of That; there is nothing else. Hence the universe, just as it stands, is deep sleep, or the fourth.
Word by word
- rūpa
- forms
- ālōka
- light
- manaskārās
- (manaskārāḥ) and the mind's attending
- tanmayā
- made of That
- ēva
- just
- na
- not
- itarat
- anything else
- yathāsthitam
- just as it stands
- atō
- (ataḥ) hence
- viśvaṁ
- the universe
- suṣuptaṁ
- deep sleep
- turyam
- the fourth
- vā
- or
Meaning
Every element of experience is named and returned to Brahman: forms (rūpa), the light by which they are seen (āloka), and the mind's turning toward them (manaskāra). The commentary: outer things such as pot and cloth, and inner ones such as pleasure and pain, are Brahman alone, made of Brahman, not different from it; so the whole universe as it stands is Brahman, as deep sleep or as the fourth (turya). A note explains the pair: of the seven stages of knowledge to be taught later, for yogīs who have reached the first five the world is deep sleep; for those in the sixth and seventh it is the fourth. Another commentary says the same. Nothing in the world needs to be removed for it to be That; what changes is how deeply it is seen to be That.