कल्पनाऽपि निवर्तेत कल्पिता यदि केनचित् । सा शिलासमुपास्तैव या नेहाऽस्ति कदाचन ॥ ६१ ॥
kalpanā’pi nivartēta kalpitā yadi kēnacit | sā śilāsamupāstaiva yā nēhā’sti kadācana || 61 ||
Translation
Even a fancy can be turned back, if someone has fancied it: it is a rock that has been made use of all the same, though it is never here at all.
Word by word
- kalpanā
- fancy
- api
- even
- nivartēta
- may be turned back
- kalpitā
- fancied
- yadi
- if
- kēnacit
- someone
- sā
- that
- śilā
- the rock
- samupāstā
- made use of
- ēva
- all the same
- yā
- which
- na
- not
- iha
- here
- asti
- is
- kadācana
- ever
Meaning
The commentary: if what is imagined has been set up by someone, knowledge turns it back; the rock that never exists has all the same been used, for imagined things are enjoyed in ignorance and they cease when knowledge comes. Gauḍapāda is cited: "Distinction would cease, if someone had imagined it; this talk is for teaching; when it is known, duality is not." Even the teacher, the pupil and the scripture are such fancies, used to teach and then laid down.