आतिवाहिकदेहात्मा तिष्ठत्यम्बरमम्बरे । एवमुच्छूनतां तस्मिन् भावयत्तेजसः कणे ॥ ३२ ॥
ātivāhikadēhātmā tiṣṭhatyambaramambarē | ēvamucchūnatāṁ tasmin bhāvayattējasaḥ kaṇē || 32 ||
Translation
the self of the conveying body stands, space in space; and imagining, in that spark of light, this kind of swelling,
Word by word
- ātivāhika
- of the conveying
- dēha
- body
- ātmā
- the self
- tiṣṭhati
- stands
- ambaram
- space
- ambarē
- in space
- ēvam
- this kind of
- ucchūnatāṁ
- swelling
- tasmin
- in that
- bhāvayat
- imagining
- tējasaḥ
- of light
- kaṇē
- in the spark
Meaning
The commentary: the jīva with a body of mind, very subtle, stands in space, imagining outer and inner objects; and in that same spark of light, imagining grossness, it is Brahman itself. The ātivāhika, the conveying body, is the subtle body that carries a being from one birth to the next; here it is the body of the first being, made of mind, "space in space": no more solid than the space it stands in.