इति चित्यवदातात्मा पृथ्व्यादीनामसंभवात् । इत्येष जीवः कथितो व्योम्नि खात्मा इवोदितः ॥ १७ ॥
iti cityavadātātmā pṛthvyādīnāmasaṁbhavāt | ityēṣa jīvaḥ kathitō vyōmni khātmā ivōditaḥ || 17 ||
Translation
So, since earth and the rest cannot be, the Self, pure in awareness, is this jīva that has been described, risen as it were in space as a self of space.
Word by word
- iti
- so
- citya
- in awareness
- avadāta
- pure
- ātmā
- the Self; a self
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādīnām
- and the rest
- asaṁbhavāt
- since (they) cannot be
- ēṣa
- this
- jīvaḥ
- jīva
- kathitō
- (kathitaḥ) described
- vyōmni
- in space
- kha
- of space
- iva
- as it were
- uditaḥ
- risen
Meaning
The commentary: in truth earth and the rest cannot exist in the Self of awareness; and so, as limited spaces like a city of the gandharvas, the space in a pot, the great space, are imagined out of space itself, so this jīva, whose self is space, has been described: it arose in the great space of supreme light. So those whose inner faculty is purified by knowledge see it. Another commentary: the conscious one sees itself as pure, and this jīva is called its own Self, risen like a city of the gandharvas in the sky.