यदिदं दृश्यते किञ्चित्सदैवाऽऽत्मनि संस्थितम् । नाऽस्तमेति न चोदेति जगत्किञ्चित्कदाचन ॥ १८ ॥
yadidaṁ dṛśyatē kiñcitsadaivā’’tmani saṁsthitam | nā’stamēti na cōdēti jagatkiñcitkadācana || 18 ||
Translation
Whatever is seen here stands forever in the Self. No world, nothing whatever, ever sets or rises.
Word by word
- yad
- (yat) what
- idaṁ
- this
- dṛśyatē
- is seen
- kiñcit
- whatever
- sadā
- forever
- ēva
- just
- ātmani
- in the Self
- saṁsthitam
- stands
- na
- not
- astam
- setting
- ēti
- goes to
- ca
- and
- udēti
- rises
- jagat
- world
- kadācana
- ever
Meaning
The commentary: so what was first put forward, that the world is Brahman alone, is established. Whatever appears here stands always in the Self; it never rises in the least and never perishes in the least. Another commentary: whatever this world appears to be stands in the Self, whose nature is the highest truth. The language of rising and setting, the language of the sun, is turned away from the world: rising and setting happen only to what is separate and moves. What is seen stands in the Self as the dream stands in the dreamer, and the dreamer does not come into being or go out of it with each scene.