चितश्चेत्यमहङ्कारः सैव राघव कल्पना । तन्मात्रादि चिदेवाऽतो द्वित्वैकत्वे क्व संस्थिते ॥ ४६ ॥
citaścētyamahaṅkāraḥ saiva rāghava kalpanā | tanmātrādi cidēvā’tō dvitvaikatvē kva saṁsthitē || 46 ||
Translation
The knowable, the ego, is of awareness; that itself, Rāghava, is imagining; the subtle elements and the rest are awareness itself: where then do twoness and oneness stand?
Word by word
- citaś
- (citaḥ) of awareness
- cētyam
- the knowable
- ahaṅkāraḥ
- the ego
- sā
- that
- ēva
- itself
- rāghava
- Rāghava
- kalpanā
- imagining
- tanmātra
- the subtle elements
- ādi
- and the rest
- cid
- (cit) awareness
- atō
- (ataḥ) then
- dvitva
- twoness
- ēkatvē
- and oneness
- kva
- where
- saṁsthitē
- do (they) stand
Meaning
The commentary: awareness imagines the ego, and in the ego the world from the subtle elements up; so awareness, which does the imagining, alone is real. Where is twoness, or oneness? Twoness is not there because there is no second; oneness is not there either, since without a second there is nothing for "one" to be marked off from.