तथैवाऽद्येह भूतत्वे याति कारणतां स्वयम् । एवं न जायते किञ्चिज्जगज्जातं न लक्ष्यते ॥ १५ ॥
tathaivā’dyēha bhūtatvē yāti kāraṇatāṁ svayam | ēvaṁ na jāyatē kiñcijjagajjātaṁ na lakṣyatē || 15 ||
Translation
so here today too it becomes, of itself, the cause of the state of the elements. Thus nothing is born, and no world is seen to be born.
Word by word
- tathā
- so
- ēva
- too
- adya
- today
- iha
- here
- bhūtatvē
- of the state of the elements
- yāti
- becomes
- kāraṇatāṁ
- the cause
- svayam
- of itself
- ēvaṁ
- thus
- na
- not
- jāyatē
- is born
- kiñcij
- (kiñcit) anything
- jagaj
- (jagat) world
- jātaṁ
- born
- lakṣyatē
- is seen
Meaning
The commentary takes up the objection: if they are not different, how is there talk of cause and effect? As before creation these causal subtle elements throbbed as the cause of the gross world, which is their own form, so today too they are the cause of their own form to come; hence the talk of cause and effect. In this way the world is never born, nor seen to be born. Cause and effect are names for one thing seen in two moments.