तथैव परमार्थात्स खात्मभूतः स्थितो द्विजः । यथा द्रवत्वं पयसि शून्यत्वं च यथाऽम्बरे ॥ २७ ॥
tathaiva paramārthātsa khātmabhūtaḥ sthitō dvijaḥ | yathā dravatvaṁ payasi śūnyatvaṁ ca yathā’mbarē || 27 ||
Translation
In just this way, in the highest truth, the brahmin stands as one with space, as fluidity is in milk and emptiness in the sky,
Word by word
- tathā
- in this way
- ēva
- just
- parama
- in the highest
- arthāt
- truth
- sa
- (saḥ) he
- kha
- with space
- ātma
- one
- bhūtaḥ
- as
- sthitō
- (sthitaḥ) stands
- dvijaḥ
- the brahmin
- yathā
- as
- dravatvaṁ
- fluidity
- payasi
- in milk
- śūnyatvaṁ
- emptiness
- ca
- and
- ambarē
- in the sky
Meaning
Three images, the third in the next verse, of a quality that cannot be separated from what has it. Milk is not milk without its flowing, the sky not the sky without its emptiness. So the brahmin is not a thing in the highest state; he is a quality of it, its own nature. The commentary: as fluidity in water and emptiness in space, so this brahmin, become space in the highest truth, stands in the highest state.