भ्रान्तिरेवमनन्तेयं चिद्व्योमव्योम्नि भासुरा । अपकुड्या जगन्नाम्नी नगरीकल्पनात्मिका ॥ ४ ॥
bhrāntirēvamanantēyaṁ cidvyōmavyōmni bhāsurā | apakuḍyā jagannāmnī nagarīkalpanātmikā || 4 ||
Translation
So this endless error shines in the sky that is the space of awareness: a city named "world", without walls, made of fancy.
Word by word
- bhrāntir
- (bhrāntiḥ) error
- ēvam
- so
- anantā
- endless
- iyaṁ
- this
- cid
- of awareness
- vyōma
- the space
- vyōmni
- in the sky
- bhāsurā
- shines
- apakuḍyā
- without walls
- jagan
- (jagat) world
- nāmnī
- named
- nagarī
- a city
- kalpanā
- fancy
- ātmikā
- made of
Meaning
The image gathers what has been said. The world is a city, but one without walls, that is, without anything solid to bound it or hold it up: it is built of imagining alone, and the only ground it stands on is the open space of awareness in which it shines.