स्पन्दत्वं च यथा वायोस्तथैष परमे पदे । कर्माण्यद्यतनान्यस्य संचितानि न सन्ति हि ॥ २८ ॥
spandatvaṁ ca yathā vāyōstathaiṣa paramē padē | karmāṇyadyatanānyasya saṁcitāni na santi hi || 28 ||
Translation
and as motion is in the wind, so he is in the highest state. He has no present actions and no gathered ones.
Word by word
- spandatvaṁ
- motion
- ca
- and
- yathā
- as
- vāyōs
- (vāyoḥ) in the wind
- tathā
- so
- ēṣa
- he
- paramē
- in the highest
- padē
- state
- karmāṇi
- actions
- adyatanāni
- present
- asya
- he
- saṁcitāni
- gathered
- na
- no
- santi
- has
- hi
- indeed
Meaning
Motion is the wind's own nature: wind does not move, it is moving. So the brahmin's seeming activity is the highest state's own nature, not a deed of his. The commentary concludes from the images: he has neither present actions nor stored ones, nor past ones, and so here he is not under the sway of the round of birth.