आदिसर्गे भवेच्चित्त्वं कल्पनाकल्पितं यदा । तदा ततःप्रभृत्येकसत्त्वं दृश्यमवेक्षते ॥ ६३ ॥
ādisargē bhavēccittvaṁ kalpanākalpitaṁ yadā | tadā tataḥprabhṛtyēkasattvaṁ dṛśyamavēkṣatē || 63 ||
Translation
When in the first creation awareness becomes the knowable, imagined by imagining, then from that time the one being sees the seen.
Word by word
- ādi
- in the first
- sargē
- creation
- bhavēc
- (bhavet) becomes
- cittvaṁ
- awareness the knowable
- kalpanā
- by imagining
- kalpitaṁ
- imagined
- yadā
- when
- tadā
- then
- tataḥ
- that
- prabhṛtya
- (prabhṛti) from time
- ēka
- the one
- sattvaṁ
- being
- dṛśyam
- the seen
- avēkṣatē
- sees
Meaning
The commentary: in the creation of the subtle cosmic being, awareness, making itself the object of its own seeing, becomes the knowable; when by the fivefold mixing of the elements the gross is imagined, from then on the one being, following the seen, sees itself, by error, as the seen. Awareness does not become something else; it takes itself as its own object.