यः प्लावयति संरब्धं पुर्यष्टकमितस्ततः । येन मूकीकृता मूढाः शिला ध्यानमिवाऽऽस्थिताः ॥ १२ ॥
yaḥ plāvayati saṁrabdhaṁ puryaṣṭakamitastataḥ | yēna mūkīkṛtā mūḍhāḥ śilā dhyānamivā’’sthitāḥ || 12 ||
Translation
who drives the restless eightfold subtle body this way and that; by whom the inert are made mute, stones seated as if in meditation;
Word by word
- yaḥ
- who
- plāvayati
- drives (makes to swim)
- saṁrabdhaṁ
- restless
- puryaṣṭakam
- the eightfold subtle body
- itas
- this way
- tataḥ
- and that
- yēna
- by whom
- mūkī
- mute
- kṛtā
- are made
- mūḍhāḥ
- the inert
- śilā
- stones
- dhyānam
- meditation
- iva
- as if
- āsthitāḥ
- seated in
Meaning
The eightfold (puryaṣṭaka, "the city of eight") is the subtle body that goes from birth to birth. The commentary counts its eight: the organs of action, the organs of knowledge, the subtle elements, the vital breath, ignorance, desire, karma and the inner organ. By his presence within and without it, it is conscious and busy. And the same presence leaves stones mute, sitting so still that they look like meditators. The commentary: he is the cause of the sentience of the sentient, and also of the variety of what has no sentience.