Translation
What is, that rises: this is seen, as a sprout from a seed.
Word by word
- yad
- (yat) what
- asti
- is
- tad
- (tat) that
- udēti
- rises
- iti
- this
- dṛṣṭaṁ
- is seen
- bījād
- (bījāt) from a seed
- iva
- as
- aṅkuraḥ
- a sprout
Meaning
Another single half-line. The commentary: if the world were real of itself, not by Brahman's being, it could never be destroyed by knowledge or any of a thousand means, for what is real is never utterly destroyed; and since its rising again could not be stopped, no one could ever be released. What is, rises again, as a sprout from a seed; this is seen not once but a thousand times. So the world has no being of its own. The argument turns the seed against the realist: a real world would keep sprouting forever.