भावयन्याति तद्भावं चित्तं चेत्यार्थतामिव । परित्यज्यैव तद्बाह्यं ततस्तारककोटरे ॥ २४ ॥
bhāvayanyāti tadbhāvaṁ cittaṁ cētyārthatāmiva | parityajyaiva tadbāhyaṁ tatastārakakōṭarē || 24 ||
Translation
Imagining it, it comes to that state, as mind to the state of an object of knowing, leaving behind what is outside it; then, within the hollow of the star,
Word by word
- bhāvayan
- imagining
- yāti
- comes
- tad
- (tat) to that; it
- bhāvaṁ
- state
- cittaṁ
- mind
- cētya
- of knowing
- arthatām
- the state of an object
- iva
- as
- parityajya
- leaving behind
- ēva
- indeed
- bāhyaṁ
- what is outside
- tatas
- (tataḥ) then
- tāraka
- of the star
- kōṭarē
- within the hollow
Meaning
The commentary: as mind reaches the shape of an object, that is, in dream and fancy an object standing outside, leaving its outward form, seems to be within as the inner faculty, so the Self of awareness, imagining, reaches that form; then, leaving its natural form within the space imagined in the adjunct, it reaches an outward form. The sentence runs on: the next verse gives the images for this inward world.