नियतिर्देशकालौ च चलनं स्पन्दनं क्रिया । इति येन गताः सत्तां सर्वसत्तातिगामिना ॥ २२ ॥
niyatirdēśakālau ca calanaṁ spandanaṁ kriyā | iti yēna gatāḥ sattāṁ sarvasattātigāminā || 22 ||
Translation
Order, place and time, motion, stirring and action: these have come to exist by him, who goes beyond all existence.
Word by word
- niyatir
- (niyatiḥ) order
- dēśa
- place
- kālau
- and time
- ca
- and
- calanaṁ
- motion
- spandanaṁ
- stirring
- kriyā
- action
- iti
- these
- yēna
- by him
- gatāḥ
- have come
- sattāṁ
- to exist
- sarva
- all
- sattā
- existence
- atigāminā
- who goes beyond
Meaning
The commentary explains each word. Order (niyati) is the law that creation must come at the time of creation and dissolution at the time of dissolution; place and time are what that law is bound to. Take a seed sown in the right place and season: its swelling is motion, its breaking open to put out a sprout is stirring, and all that follows, stem, branches, twigs and leaves, up to the fruit, is action. All of it, the commentary says, has its power to work in the world from him, whose being is of another order than the world: he is beyond every kind of existence he gives.