चिता विभाव्यमानानि तन्मात्राणि परस्परम् । स्वयं परिणतान्यन्तरम्बुनीव निरन्तरम् ॥ २६ ॥
citā vibhāvyamānāni tanmātrāṇi parasparam | svayaṁ pariṇatānyantarambunīva nirantaram || 26 ||
Translation
The subtle elements, imagined by awareness, of themselves transform into one another, unbroken, like water within water.
Word by word
- citā
- by awareness
- vibhāvyamānāni
- imagined
- tanmātrāṇi
- the subtle elements
- parasparam
- into one another
- svayaṁ
- of themselves
- pariṇatāny
- (pariṇatāni) transform
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- ambuni
- in water
- iva
- like
- nirantaram
- unbroken
Meaning
The commentary introduces the growth of the cosmic egg out of the mixing of the five elements produced in this way. When awareness has reached I-ness in the five elements, the subtle elements seen as the cosmic egg, sound, touch, form, taste and smell, by mixing with one another, transform of themselves into the shape of the cosmic egg, like bubbles in water. Another commentary: impelled by that awareness, they keep transforming, as bubbles in water. Water poured into water leaves no seam: the elements mingle until one cannot say where one ends.