श्रीवसिष्ठ उवाच । महाजीवात्म तद् ब्रह्म सर्वशक्तिमयात्मकम् । स्थितं तथेच्छमेवेह निर्विभागं निरन्तरम् ॥ २९ ॥
śrīvasiṣṭha uvāca | mahājīvātma tad brahma sarvaśaktimayātmakam | sthitaṁ tathēcchamēvēha nirvibhāgaṁ nirantaram || 29 ||
Translation
Vasiṣṭha said: That Brahman, the great jīva-self, made of all powers, stands here just as it wills, undivided and unbroken.
Word by word
- mahā
- great
- jīva
- jīva
- ātma
- self
- tad
- (tat) that
- brahma
- Brahman
- sarva
- all
- śakti
- powers
- maya
- made of
- ātmakam
- in nature
- sthitaṁ
- stands
- tathā
- just
- iccham
- as it wills
- iha
- here
- nirvibhāgaṁ
- undivided
- nirantaram
- unbroken
Meaning
The commentary: Brahman first takes the state of the whole jīva, whose resolve comes true, and then that of the individual jīvas, which depend on that resolve; the individual's resolve does not come true against the whole's. My son, before any division into individuals, that Brahman, the great jīva endowed with all powers, stood with the will "let me always be true in resolve in all jīvas".