अत्यन्ताभाव एवाऽस्ति संसारस्य यथास्थितेः । यस्मिन् बोधमहाम्भोधौ तद्रूपं परमात्मनः ॥ २० ॥
atyantābhāva ēvā’sti saṁsārasya yathāsthitēḥ | yasmin bōdhamahāmbhōdhau tadrūpaṁ paramātmanaḥ || 20 ||
Translation
That great ocean of awareness in which saṁsāra, just as it stands, is utterly non-existent: that is the form of the supreme Self.
Word by word
- atyantābhāva
- utterly non-existent
- ēva
- just
- asti
- is
- saṁsārasya
- saṁsāra
- yathāsthitēḥ
- just as it stands
- yasmin
- in which
- bōdha
- of awareness
- mahā
- great
- ambhōdhau
- ocean
- tad
- (tat) that
- rūpaṁ
- is the form
- paramātmanaḥ
- of the supreme Self
Meaning
Absolute non-existence (atyantābhāva) is not non-existence after destruction: the world is not destroyed first. "Just as it stands" (yathāsthiti), the commentary explains: without any change such as destruction, the world, unreal in its ground, is utterly non-existent there. The ocean is not emptied of waves; it never had any.