जीवो बुद्धिः क्रियास्पन्दो मनो द्वित्वैक्यमित्यपि । स्वसत्तां प्रकचन्तीं तां नियोजयति वेदने ॥ २३ ॥
jīvō buddhiḥ kriyāspandō manō dvitvaikyamityapi | svasattāṁ prakacantīṁ tāṁ niyōjayati vēdanē || 23 ||
- Another reading: प्रकञ्चन्तीति (prakañcantīti) for प्रकचन्तीं तां
Translation
Jīva, intellect, the stir of action, mind, twoness and oneness too: so it puts to knowing its own being, shining forth.
Word by word
- jīvō
- (jīvaḥ) jīva
- buddhiḥ
- intellect
- kriyā
- of action
- spandō
- (spandaḥ) the stir
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- dvitva
- twoness
- aikyam
- and oneness
- iti
- so
- api
- too
- sva
- its own
- sattāṁ
- being
- prakacantīṁ
- shining forth
- tāṁ
- it
- niyōjayati
- puts
- vēdanē
- to knowing
Meaning
The commentary: its own being, which is unfolding, it knows as the jīva, intellect, action, the stir of breath, mind, twoness, oneness: that is, it takes its own unfolding being to be the jīva and the rest. Another commentary: shining its own conscious being, it knows that very being as Brahman. The jīva, intellect and the rest are names for one shining seen from different sides.