चिन्मात्रं चेत्यरहितमनन्तमजरं शिवम् । अनादिमध्यपर्यन्तं यदनादि निरामयम् ॥ ५० ॥
cinmātraṁ cētyarahitamanantamajaraṁ śivam | anādimadhyaparyantaṁ yadanādi nirāmayam || 50 ||
Translation
Awareness alone, without anything to be aware of, endless, ageless, auspicious, without beginning, middle or end, beginningless, free of all ill.
Word by word
- cinmātraṁ
- awareness alone
- cētya
- anything to be aware of
- rahitam
- without
- anantam
- endless
- ajaraṁ
- ageless
- śivam
- auspicious
- anādi
- without beginning
- madhya
- middle
- paryantaṁ
- or end
- yad
- which is
- nirāmayam
- free of all ill
Meaning
Now it is named positively: cin-mātra, awareness alone, and cetya-rahita, without an object of awareness. Awareness with nothing to be aware of is not dark or blank; it is awareness itself, which needs no object in order to be. Every other word is a denial of limit: no end, no age, no beginning, no middle, no disease.