घनसंवेदना पश्चाद्भाविजीवादिनामिका । संभवत्यात्तकलना यदोज्झति परं पदम् ॥ ७ ॥
ghanasaṁvēdanā paścādbhāvijīvādināmikā | saṁbhavatyāttakalanā yadōjjhati paraṁ padam || 7 ||
Translation
Afterwards, its awareness dense, it takes the names of the jīva and the rest that are to be: having taken up conception, it arises when it leaves the supreme state.
Word by word
- ghana
- dense
- saṁvēdanā
- its awareness
- paścād
- (paścāt) afterwards
- bhāvi
- that are to be
- jīva
- of the jīva
- ādi
- and the rest
- nāmikā
- having the names
- saṁbhavati
- arises
- ātta
- having taken up
- kalanā
- conception
- yadā
- when
- ujjhati
- it leaves
- paraṁ
- the supreme
- padam
- state
Meaning
The commentary: through long continuance its looking grows very dense, and it takes on the limits of the subtle world that the looking aims at; then that same supreme being, when it leaves the supreme state, takes the names of jīva, Hiraṇyagarbha and the rest, with the adjunct of holding the breath that is to be. Another commentary: at the time that awareness leaves the unlimited state of the Self. "Leaves" is said from the side of appearance; the next verse makes sure it is not taken literally. Hiraṇyagarbha is the cosmic jīva, the first embodied being, from whom the individual beings follow.