तस्मिन् सर्वं ततः सर्वं तत्सर्वं सर्वतश्च यत् । तच्च सर्वमयो नित्यं तथा तदणुकं प्रति ॥ १६ ॥
tasmin sarvaṁ tataḥ sarvaṁ tatsarvaṁ sarvataśca yat | tacca sarvamayō nityaṁ tathā tadaṇukaṁ prati || 16 ||
Translation
In it is all, from it is all, it is all, and everywhere; it is ever all-pervading: so to what could it be small?
Word by word
- tasmin
- in it
- sarvaṁ
- all
- tataḥ
- from it
- tat
- it
- sarvataś
- (sarvataḥ) everywhere
- ca
- and
- yat
- which
- tac
- (tat) it
- sarvamayō
- all-pervading
- nityaṁ
- ever
- tathā
- so
- tad
- (tat) it
- aṇukaṁ
- small
- prati
- to what
Meaning
The first commentary raises a doubt: if the world-egg is small beside the space of awareness, could that space be small beside something else? No: all is in it, all comes from it, all is it. There is nothing outside it to be larger than it. Smallness and greatness are measured between things, and it is not one thing among others.