अनाद्यनुभवस्त्वित्थं योऽत्राऽस्त्यवनिकादिके । स्वप्नानुभूतं पृथ्व्यादिप्रबोधे यादृशं भवेत् ॥ ४४ ॥
anādyanubhavastvitthaṁ yō’trā’styavanikādikē | svapnānubhūtaṁ pṛthvyādiprabōdhē yādṛśaṁ bhavēt || 44 ||
Translation
And the beginningless experience of earth and the rest that is here, it would be as the earth and the rest experienced in a dream are on waking.
Word by word
- anādi
- beginningless
- anubhavas
- (anubhavaḥ) experience
- tu
- and
- itthaṁ
- thus
- yō
- (yaḥ) which
- atra
- here
- asti
- is
- avanikā
- of earth
- ādikē
- and the rest
- svapna
- in a dream
- anubhūtaṁ
- experienced
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādi
- and the rest
- prabōdhē
- on waking
- yādṛśaṁ
- as
- bhavēt
- it would be
Meaning
The commentary meets the last objection: let the world arise from the impressions of a beginningless experience in the witness. If so, then since what the witness knows is like what is experienced in dream, which is false on waking, the world arising from the witness's impressions will be false too. Another commentary: as things known by the witness in a dream become false on waking. An experience without beginning is still an experience: real as long as it lasts, and over when one wakes.