यस्याऽन्यदस्ति न विभोः कारणं शशशृङ्गवत् । यस्येदं च जगत्कार्यं तरङ्गौघ इवाऽम्भसः ॥ ५५ ॥
yasyā’nyadasti na vibhōḥ kāraṇaṁ śaśaśṛṅgavat | yasyēdaṁ ca jagatkāryaṁ taraṅgaugha ivā’mbhasaḥ || 55 ||
Translation
The all-pervading one for whom there is no other cause, any more than for a hare's horn; whose effect is this world, as the mass of waves is the water's.
Word by word
- yasya
- for whom; whose
- anyat
- other
- asti
- there is
- na
- no
- vibhōḥ
- the all-pervading one
- kāraṇaṁ
- cause
- śaśa
- a hare
- śṛṅga
- horn
- vat
- as for
- idaṁ
- this
- ca
- and
- jagat
- world
- kāryaṁ
- effect
- taraṅga
- of waves
- ōgha
- the mass
- iva
- as
- ambhasaḥ
- the water
Meaning
The commentary: as a hare's horn has no cause, being nothing, so the all-pervading one has no other cause, being the cause of all; and as the mass of waves is the effect of water, this world is his effect. The image is chosen with care: the waves are the water's "effect" only in name; nothing has come out of the water that is not water.