चिदेवंपरिवारा सा जीवशब्देन कथ्यते । भाविशब्दार्थजालेन बीजं रूपौघशाखिनः ॥ १६ ॥
cidēvaṁparivārā sā jīvaśabdēna kathyatē | bhāviśabdārthajālēna bījaṁ rūpaughaśākhinaḥ || 16 ||
Translation
Awareness with this retinue is called by the word "jīva"; through the net of words and meanings to come, it is the seed of the tree of the mass of forms.
Word by word
- cid
- (cit) awareness
- ēvaṁ
- this
- parivārā
- with retinue
- sā
- it
- jīva
- jīva
- śabdēna
- by the word
- kathyatē
- is called
- bhāvi
- to come
- śabda
- of words
- artha
- and meanings
- jālēna
- through the net
- bījaṁ
- the seed
- rūpa
- of forms
- ōgha
- of the mass
- śākhinaḥ
- of the tree
Meaning
The commentary: awareness whose retinue reaches as far as wind is called by the word jīva; through the mass of names and forms to come, it is the seed of the tree that is the mass of embodied jīvas, that is, all things of bodily form arise from it. Another commentary: after the arising of wind, the jīva is established by holding the vital breath in the form of wind; and in a note, after the jīva and the being of space comes the jīva's sense of self. The jīva here is defined by its "retinue", parivāra: space, I-ness, time, the sound-element, wind. Awareness is the same awareness; what makes it a jīva is what it has gathered round itself.