अविच्छिन्नविलासात्म स्वतो यत्स्वदनं चितः । चेत्यस्य च प्रकाशस्य जगदित्येव तत्स्थितम् ॥ ४२ ॥
avicchinnavilāsātma svatō yatsvadanaṁ citaḥ | cētyasya ca prakāśasya jagadityēva tatsthitam || 42 ||
Translation
The unbroken play of awareness's own taste, of itself, of the knowable and of the light: that stands as "the world".
Word by word
- avicchinna
- unbroken
- vilāsa
- play
- ātma
- whose nature is
- svatō
- (svataḥ) of itself
- yat
- which
- svadanaṁ
- the taste
- citaḥ
- of awareness
- cētyasya
- of the knowable
- ca
- and
- prakāśasya
- of the light
- jagat
- the world
- iti
- as
- ēva
- just
- tat
- that
- sthitam
- stands
Meaning
The commentary: the natural, unbroken tasting by awareness of its own light and of the knowable lit by it, a taste in which awareness and its object are not felt apart at all: that very natural taste appears through error as the world.