तेजः प्रकटयत्याशास्तनोत्यान्ध्यं तमो भवत् । शून्यं सद्व्योमतामेति गिरिः सन् रोधयत्यलम् ॥ २० ॥
tējaḥ prakaṭayatyāśāstanōtyāndhyaṁ tamō bhavat | śūnyaṁ sadvyōmatāmēti giriḥ san rōdhayatyalam || 20 ||
Translation
As light he makes the quarters appear; becoming darkness he spreads blindness; being void, he becomes space; being a mountain, he stops the way.
Word by word
- tējaḥ
- as light
- prakaṭayati
- he makes appear
- āśās
- (āśāḥ) the quarters
- tanōti
- he spreads
- āndhyaṁ
- blindness
- tamō
- darkness
- bhavat
- becoming
- śūnyaṁ
- void
- sad
- (sat) being
- vyōmatām
- space
- ēti
- he becomes
- giriḥ
- a mountain
- san
- being
- rōdhayati
- he stops the way
- alam
- fully
Meaning
The commentary: as light he shows the directions, as darkness he spreads the dark; becoming empty he takes the form of space, and becoming a mountain he holds back the force of the winds. Light and dark, empty and solid: every pair of opposites is his. This is said of the bodiless freed one because he is now nothing but the one awareness in which all these appear.