स्वप्नसङ्कल्पयोः संविद्वेत्त्येतज्जीवकोऽणुके । स्वरूपतारकान्तस्थो जीवोऽयं चेतति स्वयम् ॥ २६ ॥
svapnasaṅkalpayōḥ saṁvidvēttyētajjīvakō’ṇukē | svarūpatārakāntasthō jīvō’yaṁ cētati svayam || 26 ||
Translation
As awareness, in dream and in fancy, knows these things, so the jīva, within the atom, standing inside the star that is its own form, of itself perceives.
Word by word
- svapna
- in dream
- saṅkalpayōḥ
- and in fancy
- saṁvid
- awareness
- vētti
- knows
- ētaj
- (etat) these things
- jīvakō
- (jīvakaḥ) the jīva
- aṇukē
- within the atom
- svarūpa
- its own form
- tāraka
- the star
- antasthō
- (antasthaḥ) standing inside
- jīvō
- (jīvaḥ) the jīva
- ayaṁ
- this
- cētati
- perceives
- svayam
- of itself
Meaning
The commentary takes verses 25 and 26 together: as in dream and fancy awareness sees dream things within the body, so the Self of awareness, standing in the spark-like adjunct imagined as its own form, the star, experiences a body made of impressions. The jīva is not shut in by the star; it imagines the star and then knows from within it, as a dreamer knows from within the dream body.