________________
VIVEKACŪDĀMAŅI
467
As the space is not affected by the impermanent qualities of a pot like bigness, stoutness, and colours like black etc., I am not affected by the qualities of grossness etc., like cold and heat arisin from contact with water and from old age and death.
511 कर्तृत्वभोक्तृत्वखलत्वमत्तता
जडत्वबद्धत्वविमुक्ततादयः । बुझेविकल्पा न तु सन्ति वस्तुतः
स्वस्मिन् परे ब्रह्मणि केवलेद्धये ॥ ५११ ॥ kartstva-bhoktặtva-khalatva-mattatā
jadatva-baddhatva-vimuktatādayaḥ. | buddher vikalpā na tu santi vastutah ... svasmin pare brahmaņi kevale'dvaye il
Agency, enjoyment, cunning, inebriation, insentience, bondage and liberation, etc., are imagined on buddhi; they do not exist in reality in one's ātman or in the supreme Brahman which is without a second.
In the sole secondless Brahman as in one's ātman, all qualities from agency to liberation are wrought by super-imposition on buddhi and they are variously imagined. Really they do not exist.
.
512 सन्तु विकाराः प्रकृतेर्दशधा शतधा सहस्रधा वापि ।
तैः किं मेऽसङ्गचितेः न ह्यम्बुदडम्बरोऽम्बरं स्पृशति ॥५१२ ॥ santu vikārāh prakrter daśadhā satadhā sahasradhā vāpi taiḥ kim me'sangaciteh na hyambudadambaro'mbaram spráati il
Let there be changes in Prakrti in tens, hundreds or thousands. What is my connection with them? I am un connected cit. For, the thunder of the cloud does not touch the sky.
The entire universe is born of the primordial Prakrti in succession. Let these changes of primordial Prakrti be in tens, hundreds or thousands. I am asanga cit, unattached intelligence; what are they to me? An illustration is given.
ambuda-dambarah: the roar etc., of the cloud. ambaram: the sky.
