चिता यथाऽऽदौ कलिता स्वसत्ता सा तथोदिता । अभिन्ना दृश्यते व्योम्नः सत्तासत्ते न विद्महे ॥ ४८ ॥
citā yathā’’dau kalitā svasattā sā tathōditā | abhinnā dṛśyatē vyōmnaḥ sattāsattē na vidmahē || 48 ||
Translation
As its own being was conceived by awareness at the beginning, so it has risen; it is seen undivided from space: of being and non-being we know nothing.
Word by word
- citā
- by awareness
- yathā
- as
- ādau
- at the beginning
- kalitā
- was conceived
- sva
- its own
- sattā
- being
- sā
- it
- tathā
- so
- uditā
- has risen
- abhinnā
- undivided
- dṛśyatē
- is seen
- vyōmnaḥ
- from space
- asattē
- and non-being
- na
- not
- vidmahē
- we know
Meaning
The commentary: when knowledge destroys the seen and the being of the seen, the ground of being that was there before rises just as it was, as the clear being of the sky rises when the clouds part. We do not know any division of being into real and unreal. Being itself is what remains; "real" and "unreal" were names for its relation to the seen.