सङ्कल्पनं मनो विद्धि सङ्कल्पात्तन्न भिद्यते । यथा द्रवत्वात् सलिलं तथा स्पन्दो यथाऽनिलात् ॥ ४३ ॥
saṅkalpanaṁ manō viddhi saṅkalpāttanna bhidyatē | yathā dravatvāt salilaṁ tathā spandō yathā’nilāt || 43 ||
Translation
Know that mind is imagining: it is not different from imagining, as water is not different from fluidity, or motion from wind.
Word by word
- saṅkalpanaṁ
- imagining
- manō
- (manaḥ) mind
- viddhi
- know
- saṅkalpāt
- from imagining
- tan
- (tat) it
- na
- not
- bhidyatē
- is different
- yathā
- as
- dravatvāt
- from fluidity
- salilaṁ
- water
- tathā
- or
- spandō
- (spandaḥ) motion
- anilāt
- from wind
Meaning
Having given the mind's general mark, the commentary says, he now gives its particular one: imagining, saṅkalpa. The two images return from the last sargas. Fluidity is not a property water has; it is what water is. So imagining is not something the mind does; it is what the mind is.