अन्तर्भाति बहिष्ठोऽपि पर्वतो मुकुरे यथा । कूपसंस्थो यथा देहः समुद्गकगतं वचः ॥ २५ ॥
antarbhāti bahiṣṭhō’pi parvatō mukurē yathā | kūpasaṁsthō yathā dēhaḥ samudgakagataṁ vacaḥ || 25 ||
Translation
it shines within, though outside, as a mountain in a mirror; as a body standing in a well; as a voice inside a casket.
Word by word
- antar
- (antaḥ) within
- bhāti
- it shines
- bahiṣṭhō
- (bahiṣṭhaḥ) though outside
- api
- though
- parvatō
- (parvataḥ) a mountain
- mukurē
- in a mirror
- yathā
- as
- kūpa
- in a well
- saṁsthō
- (saṃsthaḥ) standing
- dēhaḥ
- a body
- samudgaka
- a casket
- gataṁ
- inside
- vacaḥ
- a voice
Meaning
The commentary: as a mountain standing outside seems to be inside a mirror; as a body able to move everywhere, reflected in the water of a well, seems to move only in the well; as a long word able to be heard from afar stays inside a cave and does not go out: so, as in dream and fancy awareness sees dream things inside the body, the Self of awareness, standing in the star-like adjunct imagined as its own form, experiences a body made of impressions. Each image has the large inside the small, contained without being diminished.