यतो जगदुदेतीव नित्यानुदितरूप्यपि । विभिन्नवदिवाऽभिन्नं तद्रूपं परमार्थकम् ॥ ४८ ॥
yatō jagadudētīva nityānuditarūpyapi | vibhinnavadivā’bhinnaṁ tadrūpaṁ paramārthakam || 48 ||
Translation
That from which the world rises, as it were, though its own form is ever unrisen; which is undivided, yet as if divided: that is the form of the highest reality.
Word by word
- yatō
- (yataḥ) from which
- jagad
- (jagat) the world
- udēti
- rises
- iva
- as it were
- nitya
- ever
- anudita
- unrisen
- rūpī
- whose form is
- api
- though
- vibhinna
- divided
- vad
- (vat) as if
- abhinnaṁ
- undivided
- tad
- that
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- paramārthakam
- of the highest reality
Meaning
The ninth pointer. The commentary: that whose form has never risen, that is ever unrisen, yet from which the world seems to rise; that which is not divided, yet appears wholly divided: that is the true form of the Supreme Self. Both "as it were" (iva) and "as if" (vat) carry the teaching: the rising and the division are appearances, and That is untouched by them.