शुद्धैकसत्त्वनिर्माणं चिद्रूपस्यैव तत्किल । प्रतिभानमतस्तस्मात् परस्माद्भिद्यते मनाक् ॥ ५० ॥
śuddhaikasattvanirmāṇaṁ cidrūpasyaiva tatkila | pratibhānamatastasmāt parasmādbhidyatē manāk || 50 ||
Translation
Just so that body is made of pure sattva alone, an appearing of the form of awareness itself; therefore it differs only a little from that Supreme.
Word by word
- śuddha
- pure
- ēka
- alone
- sattva
- sattva
- nirmāṇaṁ
- made of
- cid
- of awareness
- rūpasya
- of the form
- ēva
- itself
- tat
- that body
- kila
- just so
- pratibhānam
- an appearing
- atas
- (ataḥ) therefore
- tasmāt
- from that
- parasmād
- (parasmāt) Supreme
- bhidyatē
- it differs
- manāk
- only a little
Meaning
Another commentary: our body, made of pure sattva, is only an appearing of awareness, and so differs from the Supreme Brahman only slightly. "A little" is precise: there is a body, so not nothing; but it is transparent to what it appears in.