अहं जगदिति भ्रान्तिर्दृश्यस्याऽऽदावनुद्भवः । यदा ताभ्यामवगतस्त्वत्यन्ताभावनात्मकः ॥ ८ ॥
ahaṁ jagaditi bhrāntirdṛśyasyā’’dāvanudbhavaḥ | yadā tābhyāmavagatastvatyantābhāvanātmakaḥ || 8 ||
Translation
When the two understood that "I" and "world" is error, that the seen never arose at the beginning, being of the nature of utter absence,
Word by word
- ahaṁ
- I
- jagad
- (jagat) world
- iti
- thus
- bhrāntir
- (bhrāntiḥ) is error
- dṛśyasya
- of the seen
- ādāv
- (ādau) at the beginning
- anudbhavaḥ
- non-arising
- yadā
- when
- tābhyām
- by the two
- avagatas
- (avagataḥ) understood
- tva
- (tu) indeed
- atyanta
- utter
- abhāva
- absence
- ātmakaḥ
- of the nature
Meaning
The inward side of the samādhi. It is not mere blankness: in it the two understood what the goddess had taught, that the seen never arose and that "I" and "world" are an error. The sentence ends in the next verse.