यदिदं दृश्यते किञ्चिद् दृश्यजातं पुरोगतम् । परं ब्रह्मैव तत्सर्वमजरामरमव्ययम् ॥ ६८ ॥
yadidaṁ dṛśyatē kiñcid dṛśyajātaṁ purōgatam | paraṁ brahmaiva tatsarvamajarāmaramavyayam || 68 ||
Translation
Whatever is seen here, the whole host of seen things before us, all that is the supreme Brahman alone, unaging, deathless, unchanging.
Word by word
- yad
- (yat) whatever
- idaṁ
- here
- dṛśyatē
- is seen
- kiñcid
- (kiñcit) any
- dṛśya
- of seen things
- jātaṁ
- the host
- purōgatam
- before us
- paraṁ
- the supreme
- brahma
- Brahman
- ēva
- alone
- tat
- that
- sarvam
- all
- ajara
- unaging
- amaram
- deathless
- avyayam
- unchanging
Meaning
The proposition stated plainly. Not that the world is nothing, but that everything in it is Brahman. This is vivarta-vāda, the doctrine of appearance, which the commentary says alone remains: the world is Brahman appearing, as the snake is the rope appearing.