नाऽनुभूताऽनुभूता च ज्ञप्तिरित्थं द्विरूपिणी । पूर्वकारणरिक्तैव चिद्रूपैव प्रवर्तते ॥ ६ ॥
nā’nubhūtā’nubhūtā ca jñaptiritthaṁ dvirūpiṇī | pūrvakāraṇariktaiva cidrūpaiva pravartatē || 6 ||
Translation
Knowing is thus of two forms, the not experienced and the experienced; and, empty of any earlier cause, it goes on as awareness alone.
Word by word
- na
- not
- anubhūtā
- experienced
- ca
- and
- jñaptir
- (jñaptiḥ) knowing
- itthaṁ
- thus
- dvi
- two
- rūpiṇī
- of forms
- pūrva
- earlier
- kāraṇa
- cause
- riktā
- empty of
- ēva
- alone
- cid
- awareness
- rūpā
- as
- pravartatē
- goes on
Meaning
The goddess distinguishes two kinds of appearing. Most of what shows itself has the look of something lived before: this is memory. Some shows itself with no past at all. Both, she says, come down to the same thing: awareness itself taking a shape, with no earlier cause standing behind it. The commentary: knowledge, being of these two kinds, goes on free of earlier causes and as awareness alone.