AdvaItA Makaranda Verse 03
AdvaItA Makaranda Verse 03
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--nanu ya sarvaja sarvavid itydi ruty hi brahma sarvajatay
avagamyate yato v itydi ruty ca sarva-jagat-kraatay ca pratyagtm tu sva-arrdikam api skalyena na jnti svtantryea kicit kartumapi na aknoti tat katham-asya sarvajena sarvakraena ca brahma
abheda iti akya pratyagtmana api tad dvayam upapdayati -- nanu No(doubt)
ya sarvaja
sarvavid itydi ruty hi brahma sarvajatay avagamyate Brahman is
known to be omniscient from ruti texts such as ya sarvaja sarvavid;
- - yato v itydi ruty ca sarvajagat-kraatay ca it is also known as cause of entire universe from ruti
texts such as yato v, - -
pratyag-tm tu sva-arrdikam api skalyena na jnti whereas the inner
Self do not even completely know its own body et all,
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-mayi eva iti | cid-vyomni cidke mayi pratyagtmani eva jagadgandharva-pattanam jagad eva gandharva-pattanam aindrajlikavikubdha-myay maraa-avasthym ca megheu pratyamnam
nagaram gandharva-pattanam nma tdam-idam jagad-udeti utpadyate
iti artha | ayam bhva -- mithy-padrthasya hi dra eva updnam
yath svapna-prapacasya tat-sk tath jgrat-prapacasya api sarvasya
dyatvena mithytvt tad-dra pratyagtm eva updnam vaktavyam |
taduktam -
yath svapnaprapaco'ya mayi myvijmbhita |
eva jgratprapacaca mayi myvijmbhita || iti |
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mayi eva iti the verse beginning with mayi eva is commented
upon.
- cid-vyomni = cidke in the expanse of
Consciousness mayi = pratyagtmani eva indeed in
inner Self -- jagad-gandharva-pattanam = -
pattanam -- -
- aindrajlika-vikubdha-myay maraa-avasthym ca
megheu pratyamnam nagaram gandharva-pattanam nma gandharvapattanam is the city perceived in the clouds at the moment of death by
illusions projected by a magician - tdam-idam jagat
similar to that is this world udeti = utpadyate iti
artha arises
ayam bhva -- This is the meaning(summary).
- mithy-padrthasya hi dra eva
updnam of an illusory object the seer alone is the (material)cause
- - yath svapna-prapacasya tat-sk tath
as of the dream world its sk(seer) similarly
- jgrat-prapacasya api
sarvasya dyatvena mithytvt owing to all are seen hence unreal in
waking world, for it also
- tad-dra pratyagtm eva
updnam vaktavyam its Seer, inner Self alone is the material cause, it is
to be declared
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yath svapnaprapaco'ya mayi myvijmbhita |
eva jgratprapacaca mayi myvijmbhita || iti |
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-- pratyagtmana tad-dratvalakaam sarvajatvam the nature of seer of inner Self is its omniscience
-- - tad-adhihnatva-lakaam sarvakraatvam ca the nature of being the substratum is its all-cause.
nanu No(doubt)
- -- bahu-dra-vyavahita-meru
dnm adyamnnm hindered by long distance and unseen objects
like Mount Meru katham how can pratyagtm dra
the inner Self can bee Seer katham v else how tad
updnam it is the cause
iti cet if you think such
u tarhi rahasyam
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ajsiam iti hi ajna-vieaatay meru-dikam smaryate I do not know
thus as object of ignorance you have been remembering Mount Meru etc.,
tat ca smaraam that rememberance
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--- tath ca pratyagtm sva-adhyasta-merude likewise inner Self for the Mount Meru etc., superimposed on it
ajtatay api though object of ignorance
sk tad updnam ca bhavati becomes as the Seer as well its
cause
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