यद्व्योम्नो हृदयं यद्वा शिलायाः पवनस्य च । तस्याऽचेत्यस्य चिद्व्योम्नस्तद्रूपं परमात्मनः ॥ ४४ ॥
yadvyōmnō hṛdayaṁ yadvā śilāyāḥ pavanasya ca | tasyā’cētyasya cidvyōmnastadrūpaṁ paramātmanaḥ || 44 ||
Translation
What is the heart of space, or of a rock, or of the wind: that is the form of the Supreme Self, the space of awareness with nothing to know.
Word by word
- yad
- (yat) what
- vyōmnō
- (vyomnaḥ) of space
- hṛdayaṁ
- the heart
- yadvā
- or
- śilāyāḥ
- of a rock
- pavanasya
- of the wind
- ca
- and
- tasya
- of that
- acētyasya
- with nothing to know
- cid
- awareness
- vyōmnas
- (vyomnaḥ) the space of
- tad
- that
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- parama
- of the Supreme
- ātmanaḥ
- Self
Meaning
The fifth pointer, taken from the elements. The commentary: as the essential form of space is emptiness, of a rock its solidity, of the wind its fullness within and without, so is the form of the Supreme Self, the space of awareness, different from the seen and free of the seen. The three images give three sides of one thing: open as space, unmoved as rock, everywhere as wind.