उच्छूनादन्यतन्मात्रभावनाद् भूतरूपिणः । अयमित्थं महागुल्मो जगदादिर्विलोक्यते ॥ ५ ॥
ucchūnādanyatanmātrabhāvanād bhūtarūpiṇaḥ | ayamitthaṁ mahāgulmō jagadādirvilōkyatē || 5 ||
Translation
Through feeling the other subtle elements as swelling, of the form of elements, this great bush, the world and the rest, is seen thus.
Word by word
- ucchūnād
- (ucchūnāt) as swelling
- anya
- the other
- tanmātra
- subtle elements
- bhāvanād
- (bhāvanāt) through feeling
- bhūta
- of elements
- rūpiṇaḥ
- of the form
- ayam
- this
- itthaṁ
- thus
- mahā
- great
- gulmō
- (gulmaḥ) bush
- jagad
- (jagat) the world
- ādir
- (ādiḥ) and the rest
- vilōkyatē
- is seen
Meaning
The commentary: the subtle element of sound, lying there as impression, mixing with touch and the others, becomes through quintuplication the great elements, the gross body; and through the mind that has reached that state this vast world, moving and unmoving, a great tree, is seen. "Swelling", ucchūna, is the word the sarga will use again and again: what was subtle seems to thicken. A gulma is a thicket, a bush with many stems: the world as a tangle growing from one root.