विनश्यत्यसदेवाऽन्ते स्वप्ने स्वमरणं यथा । अथवा स्वस्वरूपत्वात् सदेवेदमनामयम् । अखण्डितमनाद्यन्तं ज्ञानमात्राम्बरोदरम् ॥ ५३ ॥
vinaśyatyasadēvā’ntē svapnē svamaraṇaṁ yathā | athavā svasvarūpatvāt sadēvēdamanāmayam | akhaṇḍitamanādyantaṁ jñānamātrāmbarōdaram || 53 ||
Translation
Being unreal, it perishes at the end, as one's own death in a dream. Or else, being one's own form, this is real, untroubled, undivided, without beginning or end, the space of pure knowing within.
Word by word
- vinaśyati
- it perishes
- asad
- (asat) unreal
- ēva
- being
- antē
- at the end
- svapnē
- in a dream
- sva
- one’s own
- maraṇaṁ
- death
- yathā
- as
- athavā
- or else
- svarūpatvāt
- being one’s own form
- sad
- (sat) real
- idam
- this
- anāmayam
- untroubled
- akhaṇḍitam
- undivided
- anādyantaṁ
- without beginning or end
- jñāna
- of knowing
- mātra
- pure
- ambara
- the space
- udaram
- within
Meaning
A verse of six pādas. The commentary: as an unreal death seen in a dream is cancelled on waking, so this seen world, appearing in ignorance, is cancelled when knowledge comes. That was the world's unreality told from the side of taking back (apavāda); now its unreality is told from the side of the ground (adhiṣṭhāna): or else, being of the nature of Brahman, this seen world is stainless, full, without a second, without beginning or end, the space of awareness itself; it has no being apart from that. The two halves of the verse are the two ways of saying it: the world is nothing, or the world is Brahman.