यश्चिद्व्योमचमत्कारः किलाकारानुभूतिमान् । सच्चिद्व्योमैव नो तस्य कारणत्वं न कार्यता ॥ ५० ॥
yaścidvyōmacamatkāraḥ kilākārānubhūtimān | saccidvyōmaiva nō tasya kāraṇatvaṁ na kāryatā || 50 ||
- Another reading: स चिद्व्योमैव (sa cidvyōmaiva) for सच्चिद्व्योमैव
Translation
What is the wonder of the space of awareness, having the experience of a form, is the space of being and awareness itself; it is neither cause nor effect.
Word by word
- yaś
- (yaḥ) what
- cid
- (cit) of awareness
- vyōma
- of the space; the space
- camatkāraḥ
- is the wonder
- kila
- indeed
- ākāra
- of a form
- anubhūtimān
- having the experience
- sac
- (sat) of being
- ēva
- itself
- nō
- neither
- tasya
- it
- kāraṇatvaṁ
- cause
- na
- nor
- kāryatā
- effect
Meaning
Brahmā appears to have a form and experiences himself in it, but this is a play, a wonder, of awareness, and a wonder of a thing is that thing. The commentary: what has the wonder of the space of awareness and is the experience of a form, is itself the space of awareness, with no causing and no being caused in it. So the creator does not stand outside his world as its cause; both are awareness.