व्यवहारपरस्याऽपि यत्पाषाणवदासनम् । अव्योम्न एव व्योमत्वं तद्रूपं परमात्मनः ॥ ४९ ॥
vyavahāraparasyā’pi yatpāṣāṇavadāsanam | avyōmna ēva vyōmatvaṁ tadrūpaṁ paramātmanaḥ || 49 ||
Translation
That which, even in one wholly engaged in action, is a sitting still like a rock; the spaciousness of what is not space: that is the form of the Supreme Self.
Word by word
- vyavahāra
- action
- parasya
- of one engaged in
- api
- even
- yat
- which
- pāṣāṇa
- a rock
- vad
- (vat) like
- āsanam
- a sitting still
- avyōmna
- (avyomnaḥ) of what is not space
- ēva
- indeed
- vyōmatvaṁ
- the spaciousness
- tad
- that
- rūpaṁ
- the form
- parama
- of the Supreme
- ātmanaḥ
- Self
Meaning
The tenth pointer. The commentary: the motionless state, like a rock, of one (the knower, or the Lord) who is engaged in the activities of māyā; and, though it has no gap or hollow in it, the spaciousness by which it gives room to the whole world: that is the Supreme Self's form. Two paradoxes in one verse. In the middle of activity there is something that never moves; in what has no room at all, there is room for everything.