चेत्यासंभवतस्तस्मिन् यदेका जगदर्थता । आस्वादकासंभवतो मरीचे क्वैव तीक्ष्णता ॥ ३० ॥
cētyāsaṁbhavatastasmin yadēkā jagadarthatā | āsvādakāsaṁbhavatō marīcē kvaiva tīkṣṇatā || 30 ||
Translation
Since the knowable cannot arise in it, its being the world is one with it. When no taster can arise, where is the sharpness of the pepper?
Word by word
- cētya
- of the knowable
- asaṁbhavatas
- (asaṁbhavataḥ) since (it) cannot arise
- tasmin
- in it
- yad
- (yat) that
- ēkā
- one
- jagat
- the world
- arthatā
- being the meaning of
- āsvādaka
- a taster
- asaṁbhavatō
- (asaṁbhavataḥ) when (there) cannot arise
- marīcē
- of the pepper
- kva
- where
- ēva
- then
- tīkṣṇatā
- the sharpness
Meaning
The pepper of v. 23 returns, now to show the world's state at dissolution. The commentary: since the seen cannot arise in that mass of awareness and bliss, the meaning of the word "world" has become one with it, no longer separate. When there is no one to taste it, what room is there for the pepper's sharpness? It is as good as not there. The world in Brahman is like that sharpness: not destroyed, simply with no one apart from it to whom it could be the world.