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VIVEKACŪDĀMANI
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sthūlādibhāvā mayi kalpitā bhramāt
:āropitānusphuranena lokaiḥ1 kāle yathā kalpakavatsarāyana
rtvādayo nişkalanirvikalpe il
The idea of the gross etc., are imagined in me by people by the manifestation of what is super-imposed in me by delusion even as in Time which has no parts or difference, distinctions are made of Kalpa, i.e., a unit of 432 millions of years, year, half-year, season etc.
"Eighteen moments are known as a kāșthā and thirty of them as a kalā”. By such' divisions, in the one infinite Time which is without parts, difference or measures like kalā and kāşthā, people imagine differences of moment, day, month, rtu, half-year, year and kalpa. Even so, merely by what is seen by their imagination ideas
like gross, subtle, causal bodies, forms etc., are imagined in me by · men through delusion.
. sthūlādi-bhāvāḥ: objects in the form of the gross, the subtle and causal bodies.
Really, however, the ātman which transcends the divisions of nāda, bindu and kalā, does not apprehend Time or its differences. Similarly, I who am conscious of the Infinite which is devoid of limitations of space, time and object (deśa-kāla-vastu-paricchedas), have liquidated ajñāna entirely and so for me, there is no apprehension of what is super-imposed, as delusion of any kind has been uprooted.
499 आरोपितं नाश्रयदूषकं भवेत् कदापि मूढमति दोषषितैः ।
ना करोत्यूषरभूमिभाग मरीचिकावारिमहाप्रवाहः ॥ ४९९ ॥ āropitam nāśrayadūşakam bhavet
kadāpi mūļhair matidosadūşitaiḥ 1 nārdrīkarotyüşarabhūmibhāgam
maricikavārimahāpravāhaḥ 11
That which is super-imposed by those subject to delusion of the mind cannot affect the substratum. The flood of waters seen in a mirage do not wet the desert sands.
matidosadūsitaih: affected by defects of the mind; müdhaih: by fools (subject to avidyā, karma and kāma).
