स्मृतः स व्योममात्रात्मा सर्वदैव स्मृतं जगत् । यत्र यत्र यथा तोये द्रवत्वं नाम भिद्यते ॥ ४५ ॥
smṛtaḥ sa vyōmamātrātmā sarvadaiva smṛtaṁ jagat | yatra yatra yathā tōyē dravatvaṁ nāma bhidyatē || 45 ||
Translation
He is remembered as a self of mere space, and the world is always remembered so. Wherever fluidity in water is called something different,
Word by word
- smṛtaḥ
- remembered
- sa
- (saḥ) he
- vyōma
- of space
- mātra
- mere
- ātmā
- a self
- sarvadā
- always
- ēva
- indeed
- smṛtaṁ
- remembered
- jagat
- the world
- yatra
- wherever
- yathā
- as
- tōyē
- in water
- dravatvaṁ
- fluidity
- nāma
- called
- bhidyatē
- is different
Meaning
The commentary: as the Self-born is now remembered, like something past, as empty, a mere self of space, so the world arising from him is also of the form of emptiness alone. And as in no place and no time is fluidity different from water, so, as the next verse says, creation is not different from the Supreme Self.