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Yoga Vāsiṣṭha 3.9.23

Traditional (ascribed to Vālmīki)

Prakaraṇas
6
Sargas
175
Published
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Verses
2878
Level
intermediate

Sarga 9 · Verse 23

Verse 23

यत्किञ्चिदिदमाभाति भातं भानमुपैष्यति । कालत्रयगतं दृश्यं तदसौ सर्वमेव च ॥ २३ ॥

yatkiñcididamābhāti bhātaṁ bhānamupaiṣyati | kālatrayagataṁ dṛśyaṁ tadasau sarvamēva ca || 23 ||

Translation

Whatever shines here, has shone, or will come to shine, all that is seen in the three times: that is he, and all of it.

Word by word

yat
whatever
kiñcid
at all
idam
here
ābhāti
shines
bhātaṁ
has shone
bhānam
to shine
upaiṣyati
will come
kāla
times
traya
in the three
gataṁ
that is
dṛśyaṁ
seen
tad
that
asau
is he
sarvam
all
ēva
indeed
ca
and

Meaning

The summary of vv. 16-23. The commentary: what is now shining, in the present; what shone before, in the past; and what will come to light, in the future: all that is seen is this, and apart from it there is nothing anywhere. The bodiless freed one is not one thing among the things of the three times; all of them are he.