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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.14.62

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
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Sargas
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Level
intermediate

Sarga 14 · Verse 62

Verse 62

दृश्ये मूर्तेऽज्ञसंरूढे विकारादि पृथग् भवेत् । नाऽमूर्ते तज्ज्ञकचिते चित्खे सदसदात्मनि ॥ ६२ ॥

dṛśyē mūrtē’jñasaṁrūḍhē vikārādi pṛthag bhavēt | nā’mūrtē tajjñakacitē citkhē sadasadātmani || 62 ||

Translation

In the seen, formed and grown up in the ignorant, change and the rest would be separate; not in the formless, shining in the knower, the space of awareness, whose self is both real and unreal.

Word by word

dṛśyē
in the seen
mūrtē
formed
ajña
in the ignorant
saṁrūḍhē
grown up
vikāra
change
ādi
and the rest
pṛthag
(pṛthak) separate
bhavēt
would be
na
not
amūrtē
in the formless
tajjña
in the knower
kacitē
shining
cit
of awareness
khē
in the space
sad
(sat) real
asad
(asat) unreal
ātmani
whose self is

Meaning

The commentary: the notions of formed and formless that the ignorant and the wise hold about the seen are what give rise to duality and non-duality: for the knower of the Self the seen is formless like a dream and unreal, so in his view there is no duality; the ignorant see it as formed and so real, and in their view there is duality. Change, parts and division belong to the seen as the ignorant hold it.