अनुभूतान्यपीमानि जगन्ति व्योमरूपिणि । पृथ्व्यादीनि न सन्त्येव स्वप्नसङ्कल्पयोरिव ॥ ६ ॥
anubhūtānyapīmāni jaganti vyōmarūpiṇi | pṛthvyādīni na santyēva svapnasaṅkalpayōriva || 6 ||
Translation
Though experienced, these worlds, in That whose form is space, earth and the rest, do not exist at all, as in dream and fancy.
Word by word
- anubhūtāni
- experienced
- api
- though
- imāni
- these
- jaganti
- worlds
- vyōma
- space
- rūpiṇi
- in That whose form is
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādīni
- and the rest
- na
- not
- santi
- exist
- ēva
- at all
- svapna
- dream
- saṅkalpayōḥ
- and fancy
- iva
- as in
Meaning
The commentary meets the charge that this contradicts perception: as pots and cloth experienced in dream and fancy are not things of earth for one awake, so these worlds, appearing in the supreme Brahman, the space of awareness, are not earth and the rest. Experience is granted; what it shows is not made of what it seems to be made of.