कदाचित्स्मृतितां त्यक्त्वा प्रतिभामात्रमेव सत् । भाति प्रथमसर्गेषु रूपेण तदनुक्रमात् ॥ ८ ॥
kadācitsmṛtitāṁ tyaktvā pratibhāmātramēva sat | bhāti prathamasargēṣu rūpēṇa tadanukramāt || 8 ||
Translation
At times, leaving the state of memory, it is bare intuition, being; in the first creations it shines as form, and afterwards in sequence.
Word by word
- kadācit
- at times
- smṛtitāṁ
- the state of memory
- tyaktvā
- leaving
- pratibhā
- intuition
- mātram
- bare
- ēva
- just
- sat
- being
- bhāti
- shines
- prathama
- in the first
- sargēṣu
- creations
- rūpēṇa
- as form
- tad
- its
- anukramāt
- in sequence
Meaning
In the very first creation there is nothing earlier to remember. There awareness shines as form by bare intuition (pratibhā), with no past behind it. Once that has happened, what follows can appear in sequence, and then as memory of what came before. So the order of things is real only from inside it; at its root is a shining that remembers nothing.