वेद्यवेदनवेतृत्वं यत्रेदं प्रतिबिम्बति । अबुद्ध्यादौ महादर्शे तद्रूपं परमं स्मृतम् ॥ ५१ ॥
vēdyavēdanavētṛtvaṁ yatrēdaṁ pratibimbati | abuddhyādau mahādarśē tadrūpaṁ paramaṁ smṛtam || 51 ||
Translation
The great mirror without intellect and the rest, in which this knowable, knowing and knowerhood is reflected: that is held to be the supreme form.
Word by word
- vēdya
- knowable
- vēdana
- knowing
- vētṛtvaṁ
- and knowerhood
- yatra
- in which
- idaṁ
- this
- pratibimbati
- is reflected
- abuddhi
- without intellect
- ādau
- and the rest
- mahā
- great
- ādarśē
- the mirror
- tad
- that
- rūpaṁ
- form
- paramaṁ
- the supreme
- smṛtam
- is held to be
Meaning
The twelfth pointer, which the commentary says clarifies how That is the cause of the triad: not by transformation (pariṇāma), as milk becomes curd, but by appearance (vivarta), as a face appears in a mirror. That, a great mirror without intellect or any other instrument, in which the world as knowable, knowing and knower is reflected, is the highest form of the Supreme Self. Another commentary adds that even the causing of the triad is Brahman's only as appearance, not as change. A mirror is not altered by what it shows.