शुद्धसंविन्मयत्वाद् यः खं भवेद् व्योमचिन्तया । पदार्थचिन्तयाऽर्थत्वमिव तिष्ठत्यधिष्ठितः ॥ २३ ॥
śuddhasaṁvinmayatvād yaḥ khaṁ bhavēd vyōmacintayā | padārthacintayā’rthatvamiva tiṣṭhatyadhiṣṭhitaḥ || 23 ||
Translation
who, being made of pure awareness, becomes space by thinking of space, and by thinking of objects stands as if he were objects, their ground.
Word by word
- śuddha
- pure
- saṁvin
- (saṁvit) awareness
- mayatvād
- (mayatvāt) being made of
- yaḥ
- who
- khaṁ
- space
- bhavēd
- (bhavet) becomes
- vyōma
- of space
- cintayā
- by thinking
- padārtha
- of objects
- arthatvam
- objects (being an object)
- iva
- as if
- tiṣṭhati
- stands
- adhiṣṭhitaḥ
- as their ground
Meaning
The commentary introduces it: this same one becomes space and the rest by thinking of them, and there is nothing else that the word "space" names. Because he is pure awareness, what he thinks of, he becomes: thinking "I am space", he takes on the state of space; thinking of objects, he seems to be objects. "As if" (iva) is the key: he does not turn into them; he stands under them as their ground (adhiṣṭhāna), as the rope under the snake. With this the commentary closes the account of how the world comes to be laid upon him.