अत्यन्ताभावसम्पत्तिं विनाऽहन्ताजगत्स्थितेः । अनुत्पादमयी ह्येषा नोदेत्येव विमुक्तता ॥ १२ ॥
atyantābhāvasampattiṁ vinā’hantājagatsthitēḥ | anutpādamayī hyēṣā nōdētyēva vimuktatā || 12 ||
Translation
Without reaching the utter non-existence of what holds I and world in place, this freedom, whose nature is non-arising, does not arise at all.
Word by word
- atyanta
- utter
- abhāva
- non-existence
- sampattiṁ
- reaching
- vinā
- without
- ahantā
- I
- jagat
- world
- sthitēḥ
- of what holds in place
- anutpāda
- non-arising
- mayī
- whose nature is
- hya
- (hi) indeed
- ēṣā
- this
- na
- not
- udētya
- (udeti) does arise
- ēva
- at all
- vimuktatā
- freedom
Meaning
The commentary: without the sublation of ignorance, the root of I-ness and of the world, this freedom, which is eternal, does not dawn. Freedom is "made of non-arising": it is not a new state produced, but the seeing that I and world never arose. So it comes only with the full disappearance of their ground in ignorance, not with a partial quieting of them.