प्रतिभासत एवेदं केषाञ्चित्स्मरणं विना । चिदणूनां प्रजेशत्वं काकतालीयवद् यतः ॥ १० ॥
pratibhāsata ēvēdaṁ kēṣāñcitsmaraṇaṁ vinā | cidaṇūnāṁ prajēśatvaṁ kākatālīyavad yataḥ || 10 ||
Translation
For some it shines forth without memory at all; for the lordship of creatures comes to atoms of awareness as by chance, like the crow and the palm fruit.
Word by word
- pratibhāsata
- (pratibhāsate) shines forth
- ēva
- at all
- idaṁ
- it
- kēṣāñcit
- for some
- smaraṇaṁ
- memory
- vinā
- without
- cid
- of awareness
- aṇūnāṁ
- to atoms
- prajēśatvaṁ
- the lordship of creatures
- kākatālīyavad
- (kākatālīyavat) as by chance, like the crow and the palm fruit
- yataḥ
- for
Meaning
The commentary explains the proverb: the crow alights and the palm fruit falls; the two have no relation of cause and effect, the meeting is sudden. So to certain points of awareness the thought "I am Brahmā" comes without any earlier experience of being Brahmā: there is no former creatorship for them to remember. Even the creator's world, then, rests on an appearing with no cause behind it.