चिच्छक्त्या स्वाङ्गभूतात्मा कल्पितोऽस्ति न वास्तवः । अनेनोच्छूनतामेत्य यदपीदं वितन्यते ॥ ११ ॥
cicchaktyā svāṅgabhūtātmā kalpitō’sti na vāstavaḥ | anēnōcchūnatāmētya yadapīdaṁ vitanyatē || 11 ||
Translation
is imagined by the power of awareness as its own limb; it is not real. And whatever is spread out by it, having swollen,
Word by word
- cic
- (cit) of awareness
- chaktyā
- (śaktyā) by the power
- sva
- its own
- aṅga
- limb
- bhūta
- become
- ātmā
- as
- kalpitō
- (kalpitaḥ) imagined
- asti
- is
- na
- not
- vāstavaḥ
- real
- anēna
- by it
- ucchūnatām
- swelling
- ētya
- having come to
- yad
- (yat) whatever
- api
- even
- idaṁ
- this
- vitanyatē
- is spread out
Meaning
The commentary: at the beginning of creation these five subtle elements, which are its own form through the power of awareness to light up objects, are imagined in the great space; they are not real. Though by mixing with one another they become gross and spread out this whole gross world, still, standing in the Self of awareness that is the ground of their own imagining, as a form appears in space, they are real only in that, not real of themselves.