भावयञ्छब्दनिर्माता शब्दैर्बध्नाति कल्पितैः । आतिवाहिकदेहोऽसावित्यसत्यजगद्भ्रमे ॥ ३७ ॥
bhāvayañchabdanirmātā śabdairbadhnāti kalpitaiḥ | ātivāhikadēhō’sāvityasatyajagadbhramē || 37 ||
Translation
imagining, the maker of words binds them with words he has imagined: this conveying body, in the delusion of an unreal world.
Word by word
- bhāvayañ
- (bhāvayan) imagining
- chabda
- (śabda) of words
- nirmātā
- the maker
- śabdair
- (śabdaiḥ) with words
- badhnāti
- binds
- kalpitaiḥ
- he has imagined
- ātivāhika
- conveying
- dēhō
- (dehaḥ) body
- asau
- this
- iti
- thus
- asatya
- of an unreal
- jagad
- (jagat) world
- bhramē
- in the delusion
Meaning
The commentary: imagining place, time, action, substance and the rest, the maker of names, that Lord with a body of mind, binds things and himself in the delusion of the unreal world with the names he has himself imagined. That is: the Lord who has become a jīva imagines place, time and the many things with the mind, creates the names, and by joining names to things binds them and himself in the delusion of the world. Naming is the bond: what has a name seems to have a being.