यदिदं दृश्यते दृश्यमहन्त्वन्तादिसंयुतम् । सतोऽप्यस्याऽत्यनुत्पत्त्या बुद्ध्यैतदवाप्यते ॥ २६ ॥
yadidaṁ dṛśyatē dṛśyamahantvantādisaṁyutam | satō’pyasyā’tyanutpattyā buddhyaitadavāpyatē || 26 ||
Translation
This seen world, joined with "I-ness", "you-ness" and the rest, though it seems to exist: by the understanding that it never arose at all, this is gained.
Word by word
- yad
- which
- idaṁ
- this
- dṛśyatē
- seems
- dṛśyam
- seen world
- ahantva
- "I-ness"
- tvantā
- "you-ness"
- ādi
- and the rest
- saṁyutam
- joined with
- satō
- to exist
- api
- though
- asya
- its
- atyanutpattyā
- that it never arose at all
- buddhyā
- by the understanding
- ētat
- this
- avāpyatē
- is gained
Meaning
The whole method in one verse. Everything seen, with all its distinctions of I, you, he and this, seems to exist; but, the commentary says, like the son of a barren woman it never came into being, and by knowing that it never arose (atyanta-anutpatti), freedom is gained. Not by destroying the world, which would leave a world to be destroyed, but by seeing that it was never born. The teaching of the Utpatti Prakaraṇa, "the arising", is that nothing has arisen.