तदप्याकाशरूपात्मकल्पनात्मनि सन्मयम् । क्वचिन्न नाम तत्सिद्धं यदसिद्धेन साध्यते ॥ १२ ॥
tadapyākāśarūpātmakalpanātmani sanmayam | kvacinna nāma tatsiddhaṁ yadasiddhēna sādhyatē || 12 ||
Translation
that too, in the Self which is the imagining of the form of space, is made of being. Nowhere is that proven which is proven by what is unproven.
Word by word
- tad
- (tat) that
- api
- too
- ākāśa
- of space
- rūpa
- the form
- ātma
- the Self
- kalpanā
- the imagining
- ātmani
- in the Self which is
- san
- (sat) of being
- mayam
- made
- kvacin
- (kvacit) anywhere
- na
- not
- nāma
- indeed
- tat
- that
- siddhaṁ
- proven
- yad
- (yat) which
- asiddhēna
- by what is unproven
- sādhyatē
- is proven
Meaning
The commentary concludes verses 8 to 12: they are real only through their ground, not of themselves, for it is settled that what is established by something unestablished is never established. The rule is from logic: a conclusion can be no surer than its premise. If the elements are only imagined, a world built from them cannot acquire a reality they lack; its being is borrowed from awareness, the ground.