नाऽस्ति दृश्यं जगद्द्रष्टा दृश्याभावाद्विलीनवत् । भातीति भासनं यत्स्यात्तद्रूपं तस्य वस्तुनः ॥ ४० ॥
nā’sti dṛśyaṁ jagaddraṣṭā dṛśyābhāvādvilīnavat | bhātīti bhāsanaṁ yatsyāttadrūpaṁ tasya vastunaḥ || 40 ||
Translation
When there is no seen world, and the seer, for lack of the seen, is as if dissolved, the shining that is spoken of as "it shines": that is the form of that reality.
Word by word
- na
- no
- asti
- there is
- dṛśyaṁ
- seen
- jagad
- (jagat) world
- draṣṭā
- the seer
- dṛśya
- of the seen
- abhāvād
- (abhāvāt) for lack
- vilīna
- dissolved
- vat
- as if
- bhāti
- it shines
- iti
- as
- bhāsanaṁ
- the shining
- yat
- that
- syāt
- is
- tad
- that
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- tasya
- of that
- vastunaḥ
- reality
Meaning
The second pointer. The commentary: at the beginning of samādhi without distinctions (nirvikalpa), the seen world no longer has being; for lack of the seen, the seer too seems to dissolve; so the triad of knower, knowing and known dissolves, and the knowing that remains as the witness of that dissolution is the form of the real. Note the word "as if" (vat): the seer is not destroyed, it only seems to vanish because there is nothing for it to be the seer of. What is left can be described only by saying "it shines".