अत्यन्तविस्मृतं विश्वं मोक्ष इत्यभिधीयते । ईप्सितानीप्सिते तत्र न स्तः काचन कस्यचित् ॥ ११ ॥
atyantavismṛtaṁ viśvaṁ mōkṣa ityabhidhīyatē | īpsitānīpsitē tatra na staḥ kācana kasyacit || 11 ||
- Another reading: केचन (kēcana) for काचन
Translation
The universe utterly forgotten is called liberation; there, nothing at all is wished for or unwished by anyone.
Word by word
- atyanta
- utterly
- vismṛtaṁ
- forgotten
- viśvaṁ
- the universe
- mōkṣa
- liberation
- itya
- (iti) as
- abhidhīyatē
- is called
- īpsita
- wished for
- anīpsitē
- and unwished
- tatra
- there
- na
- not
- staḥ
- are
- kācana
- at all
- kasyacit
- by anyone
Meaning
If the world is memory, its complete forgetting is release. This is not a lapse of attention but the end of the latent impressions that make the world appear as real: another commentary says that with every impression gone, awareness without a body holds nothing dear and nothing hateful. Where nothing stands over against one, there is nothing to want and nothing to avoid.