चितेश्चित्त्वं जगद्विद्धि नाऽजगच्चित्त्वमस्ति हि । अजगत्त्वादचिच्चित्स्याद्भानाद्भेदो जगत्कुतः ॥ ५३ ॥
citēścittvaṁ jagadviddhi nā’jagaccittvamasti hi | ajagattvādaciccitsyādbhānādbhēdō jagatkutaḥ || 53 ||
Translation
Know the world as the awareness-ness of awareness; there is no awareness-ness without a world. If it lacked the world, awareness would be non-awareness; the difference is from appearing: whence a world?
Word by word
- citēś
- (citeḥ) of awareness
- cittvaṁ
- the awareness-ness
- jagad
- (jagat) the world
- viddhi
- know
- na
- not
- ajagac
- (ajagat) without a world
- cittvam
- awareness-ness
- asti
- there is
- hi
- indeed
- ajagattvād
- (ajagattvāt) if it lacked the world
- acic
- (acit) non-awareness
- cit
- awareness
- syād
- (syāt) would be
- bhānād
- (bhānāt) from appearing
- bhēdō
- (bhedaḥ) the difference
- jagat
- a world
- kutaḥ
- whence
Meaning
The commentary: Rāma, the property of awareness, its being aware, is the world, and the world is nothing besides; if being aware were separate from the world, awareness would become non-awareness. Its name comes from its lighting up that property, the world; without it there would be nothing for it to be aware of. So the difference between awareness and its awareness-ness is only in the imagining; in truth there is no difference; where then is a world?