तस्मात् प्रियतम: स्वात्मा सर्वेषामपि देहिनाम् । तदर्थमेव सकलं जगदेतच्चराचरम् ॥ ५४ ॥
tasmāt priyatamaḥ svātmā sarveṣām api dehinām tad-artham eva sakalaṁ jagad etac carācaram
- tasmāt
- therefore
- priya-tamaḥ
- most dear
- sva-ātmā
- one’s own self
- sarveṣām
- for all
- api
- indeed
- dehinām
- embodied living beings
- tat-artham
- for the sake of it
- eva
- certainly
- sakalam
- all
- jagat
- the created universe
- etat
- this
- cara-acaram
- with its moving and nonmoving entities
Therefore it is his own self that is most dear to every embodied living being, and it is simply for the satisfaction of this self that the whole material creation of moving and nonmoving entities exists.