महाकाशमहाम्भोधौ महाशून्यत्ववारिणि । महाचिद्द्रवभावोत्थान् बुद्बुदानर्बुदप्रभान् ॥ ४ ॥
mahākāśamahāmbhōdhau mahāśūnyatvavāriṇi | mahāciddravabhāvōtthān budbudānarbudaprabhān || 4 ||
Translation
bubbles by the hundred million, rising from the fluid nature of great awareness in the great ocean of great space, whose water is great emptiness;
Word by word
- mahā
- great
- ākāśa
- space
- ambhōdhau
- in the ocean
- śūnyatva
- emptiness
- vāriṇi
- whose water is
- cid
- (cit) of awareness
- drava
- fluid
- bhāva
- nature
- utthān
- rising
- budbudān
- bubbles
- arbuda
- by the hundred million
- prabhān
- shining
Meaning
The image changes from motes to bubbles. The ocean is space; its water is emptiness; what stirs in it and throws up bubbles is the "fluid nature" of awareness, its power to move and take shape. Each bubble is a world-egg. Four times "great" (mahā): nothing in the picture is small except the worlds. Another commentary: rising from the play of great awareness in the water of ignorance.