स एष ब्राह्मणस्तस्मिन्सर्गादावम्बरोदरे । निर्विकल्पश्चिदाकाशरूपमास्थाय संस्थितः ॥ ३९ ॥
sa ēṣa brāhmaṇastasminsargādāvambarōdarē | nirvikalpaścidākāśarūpamāsthāya saṁsthitaḥ || 39 ||
Translation
This brahmin, at the beginning of creation, within space, abides having taken the form of the space of awareness, free of all imagining.
Word by word
- sa
- (saḥ) this
- ēṣa
- one
- brāhmaṇas
- (brāhmaṇaḥ) brahmin
- tasmin
- at that
- sarga
- of creation
- ādāv
- (ādau) at the beginning
- ambara
- of space
- udarē
- within
- nirvikalpaś
- (nirvikalpaḥ) free of all imagining
- cid
- (cit) of awareness
- ākāśa
- the space
- rūpam
- the form
- āsthāya
- having taken
- saṁsthitaḥ
- abides
Meaning
The commentary sees an objection here: if a body is seen in him, is his freedom from imagining lost? No. What we said before still holds: he stands in space at the beginning of creation in his own form, the space of awareness, free of all imagining (nirvikalpa). The body others lay on him through their own way of seeing does not touch it. One may be seen as a body by others and not be one.