एतत्त्रिलोकतां यातं ब्रह्मेत्युक्तार्थधीः कुतः । तस्मान्नो संभवत्येषा जगच्छब्दार्थकल्पना ॥ २९ ॥
ētattrilōkatāṁ yātaṁ brahmētyuktārthadhīḥ kutaḥ | tasmānnō saṁbhavatyēṣā jagacchabdārthakalpanā || 29 ||
Translation
"This Brahman has become the three worlds": how can that meaning even be thought? Therefore this imagining of a meaning for the word "world" cannot arise.
Word by word
- ētat
- this
- trilōkatāṁ
- the three worlds
- yātaṁ
- has become
- brahma
- Brahman
- iti
- that
- ukta
- said
- artha
- meaning
- dhīḥ
- thought
- kutaḥ
- how can
- tasmān
- (tasmāt) therefore
- nō
- not
- saṁbhavati
- can arise
- ēṣā
- this
- jagac
- (jagat) "world"
- śabda
- for the word
- kalpanā
- imagining
Meaning
The commentary: where the word "world" has no object, how can there be the thought that Brahman has become the three worlds? As the words "son of a barren woman" can be spoken but point to nothing, so the word "world" points to nothing apart from Brahman. When Vasiṣṭha said the bodiless one is the sun and the moon, he did not mean that Brahman turned into them; he meant there is nothing there but Brahman.