लीलोवाच । एकस्मिन्नेव संशान्ते दिक्कालाद्यविभागिनि । विद्यमाने परे तत्त्वे कलनावसरः कुतः ॥ ६४ ॥
līlōvāca | ēkasminnēva saṁśāntē dikkālādyavibhāgini | vidyamānē parē tattvē kalanāvasaraḥ kutaḥ || 64 ||
Translation
Līlā said: When the one alone, all at peace, undivided by space, time and the rest, the supreme reality, is present, where is there room for imagining?
Word by word
- ēkasmin
- when the one
- ēva
- alone
- saṁśāntē
- all at peace
- dik
- by space
- kāla
- time
- ādya
- and the rest
- avibhāgini
- undivided
- vidyamānē
- is present
- parē
- supreme
- tattvē
- reality
- kalanā
- for imagining
- avasaraḥ
- room
- kutaḥ
- where
Meaning
The commentary: earlier it was said that all imagining depends on a first stir, the stir of seeing; Līlā now questions that stir itself. In the supreme reality, ever present and free of the divisions of space and time, where is the opening for any change at all? Milk turns into curd and is no longer milk; if Brahman stirred into imagining, it would no longer be what it is.