न विद्यते जगद्यत्र साद्र्यब्ध्युर्वीनदीश्वरम् । चिदेकत्वात्प्रसङ्गः स्यात् कस्तत्रेतरविभ्रमः ॥ ७८ ॥
na vidyatē jagadyatra sādryabdhyurvīnadīśvaram | cidēkatvātprasaṅgaḥ syāt kastatrētaravibhramaḥ || 78 ||
Translation
Where there is no world with its mountains, oceans, earth, rivers and lords, from the oneness of awareness, what occasion is there, what other delusion?
Word by word
- na
- not
- vidyatē
- there is
- jagad
- (jagat) world
- yatra
- where
- sa
- with
- adri
- mountains
- abdhi
- oceans
- urvī
- earth
- nadī
- rivers
- īśvaram
- and lords
- cid
- (cit) of awareness
- ēkatvāt
- from the oneness
- prasaṅgaḥ
- occasion
- syāt
- is there
- kas
- (kaḥ) what
- tatra
- there
- itara
- other
- vibhramaḥ
- delusion
Meaning
The commentary: since it is made of awareness, there the world as described, with mountains, oceans, earth, rivers and their presiding gods, does not exist; how can another error, of parts and the rest, arise in it? Where the whole is not there, its parts cannot be either.