स्वरूपत्वात्तु नाऽस्त्येव यच्च भाति चिदेव सा । तथैव चेत्यनिर्हीणा परमव्योमरूपिणी ॥ ४१ ॥
svarūpatvāttu nā’styēva yacca bhāti cidēva sā | tathaiva cētyanirhīṇā paramavyōmarūpiṇī || 41 ||
- Another reading: यथैव (yathaiva) for तथैव
Translation
Being its own form, it does not exist at all; and what shines is awareness itself. Just so, free of the knowable, it has the form of the supreme space;
Word by word
- svarūpatvāt
- being its own form
- tu
- indeed
- nāsti
- does not exist
- ēva
- at all
- yac
- (yat) what
- ca
- and
- bhāti
- shines
- cid
- (cit) awareness
- sā
- that
- tathā
- just so
- cētya
- of the knowable
- nirhīṇā
- free
- parama
- supreme
- vyōma
- space
- rūpiṇī
- having the form
Meaning
The commentary: in truth the world is the Self, so as a world it does not exist; what shines is only awareness. Awareness free of objects is the supreme space.