चमत्कुर्वन्ति वस्तूनि यदालोकतया मिथः । असज्जातमसद् येन येन सत्सत्त्वमागतम् ॥ २० ॥
camatkurvanti vastūni yadālōkatayā mithaḥ | asajjātamasad yēna yēna satsattvamāgatam || 20 ||
Translation
by whose light things work their wonders on one another; by whom the unreal has become unreal, and by whom the real has come to reality;
Word by word
- camatkurvanti
- work wonders
- vastūni
- things
- yad
- (yat) whose
- ālōkatayā
- by the light
- mithaḥ
- on one another
- asaj
- (asat) the unreal
- jātam
- has become
- asad
- (asat) unreal
- yēna
- by whom
- sat
- the real
- sattvam
- reality
- āgatam
- has come to
Meaning
The commentary marks this verse as the start of a new answer: these four verses (20-23) show how the world comes to be laid upon him. First, all the dealings of things with one another, every cause and effect, happen in his light. Then a deeper claim: even the difference between real and unreal is his doing. The unreal is unreal and the real is real only because there is the one in whose light both are told apart.