स्वयं विचित्रं स्फुरति चिदण्डकमनाहतम् । स्वयं विलक्षणस्पन्दं चिद्वायुरण्डजात्मकः ॥ ६४ ॥
svayaṁ vicitraṁ sphurati cidaṇḍakamanāhatam | svayaṁ vilakṣaṇaspandaṁ cidvāyuraṇḍajātmakaḥ || 64 ||
Translation
Of itself the egg of awareness, unbroken, throbs in many forms; of itself the wind of awareness, born of the egg, stirs in its own way.
Word by word
- svayaṁ
- of itself
- vicitraṁ
- in many forms
- sphurati
- throbs
- cid
- (cit) of awareness
- aṇḍakam
- the egg
- anāhatam
- unbroken
- vilakṣaṇa
- in its own way
- spandaṁ
- stirs
- vāyur
- (vāyuḥ) wind
- aṇḍaja
- born of the egg
- ātmakaḥ
- in nature
Meaning
The commentary on verses 64 to 67: as Brahman, by the order of its own imaginings, came to be the world and the jīva, so by its own knowing it stands in its own form as being, awareness and bliss. Awareness, of itself, without any change in its own form, appears as wondrous space; then awareness itself, as the wind born from space, appears with its own peculiar movement. The litany that follows names each element as awareness.