अन्तःशून्याः स्थिताः केचित् सङ्कल्पक्षयरात्रयः । तरङ्गा इव तोयेऽब्धौ प्रोह्यन्ते शून्यतार्णवे ॥ १८ ॥
antaḥśūnyāḥ sthitāḥ kēcit saṅkalpakṣayarātrayaḥ | taraṅgā iva tōyē’bdhau prōhyantē śūnyatārṇavē || 18 ||
Translation
Some stand empty within, nights in which every fancy has perished; like waves in an ocean of water, they are inferred in the ocean of emptiness.
Word by word
- antaḥ
- within
- śūnyāḥ
- empty
- sthitāḥ
- stand
- kēcit
- some
- saṅkalpa
- every fancy
- kṣaya
- has perished
- rātrayaḥ
- nights
- taraṅgā
- waves
- iva
- like
- tōyē
- of water
- abdhau
- in an ocean
- prōhyantē
- they are inferred
- śūnyatā
- of emptiness
- arṇavē
- in the ocean
Meaning
These are world-eggs in dissolution, unmanifest. The first commentary: when the seeds of all the fancies of the last kalpa, the subtle body, have perished, they stand within like a dark night, and are known only by inference, as waves are inferred in a still sea. Like deep sleep, which no one sees and yet everyone knows was there.