नश्वरेष्विह भावेषु तदसि त्वमनश्वरम् । यथा द्रव्यविकारेषु द्रव्यमात्रं निरूपितम् ॥ १२ ॥
naśvareṣv iha bhāveṣu tad asi tvam anaśvaram yathā dravya-vikāreṣu dravya-mātraṁ nirūpitam
- naśvareṣu
- subject to destruction
- iha
- in this world
- bhāveṣu
- among entities
- tat
- that
- asi
- are
- tvam
- You
- anaśvaram
- the indestructible
- yathā
- just as
- dravya
- of a substance
- vikāreṣu
- among the transformations
- dravya-mātram
- the substance itself
- nirūpitam
- ascertained
You are the one indestructible entity among all the destructible things of this world, like the underlying substance that is seen to remain unchanged while the things made from it undergo transformations.