सङ्कल्पमात्रमेवैतन्मनो ब्रह्मेति कथ्यते । सङ्कल्पाकाशपुरुषो नाऽस्य पृथ्व्यादि विद्यते ॥ ५४ ॥
saṅkalpamātramēvaitanmanō brahmēti kathyatē | saṅkalpākāśapuruṣō nā’sya pṛthvyādi vidyatē || 54 ||
Translation
This is mere imagining: mind is what is called Brahmā. He is a man of imagining in space; he has no earth and the rest.
Word by word
- saṅkalpa
- imagining
- mātram
- mere
- ēva
- indeed
- ētan
- (etat) this
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- brahmā
- Brahmā
- iti
- so
- kathyatē
- is called
- ākāśa
- in space
- puruṣō
- (puruṣaḥ) a man
- na
- no
- asya
- he has
- pṛthvī
- earth
- ādi
- and the rest
- vidyatē
- there is
Meaning
The formula of the whole teaching on creation: Brahmā is mind, and the mind is imagining. The commentary: this mind, which is imagining alone, is called Brahmā; he is the man of imagining in space, and there is no earth in him. What we call the creator of the world is the power of imagining in awareness, the same power that makes our own dreams.