इदं जगदयं सर्गः स्मृतिरेवेति जृम्भते । दूरकल्पक्षणाभ्यासविपर्यासैकरूपिणी ॥ ५ ॥
idaṁ jagadayaṁ sargaḥ smṛtirēvēti jṛmbhatē | dūrakalpakṣaṇābhyāsaviparyāsaikarūpiṇī || 5 ||
Translation
"This is the world, this the creation": thus memory itself unfolds, whose one form is the error that turns the near far and spreads an instant into the habit of a kalpa.
Word by word
- idaṁ
- this
- jagad
- (jagat) the world
- ayaṁ
- this
- sargaḥ
- the creation
- smṛtir
- (smṛtiḥ) memory
- ēva
- itself
- iti
- thus
- jṛmbhatē
- unfolds
- dūra
- of far
- kalpa
- kalpa
- kṣaṇa
- instant
- abhyāsa
- habit
- viparyāsa
- error
- ēka
- one
- rūpiṇī
- whose form
Meaning
The commentary: latent impression alone unfolds as this world and this creation. What is near and present it shows as far and past; the instant, repeated, it shows as hour, day, fortnight, month and year. This inversion of place and time is the one form of that impression. The point is precise: distance and duration are not features of a world out there; they are how memory lays itself out.