अविद्यमानोऽप्यवभासते यो वैकारिको राजससर्ग एष: । ब्रह्म स्वयंज्योतिरतो विभाति ब्रह्मेन्द्रियार्थात्मविकारचित्रम् ॥ २२ ॥
avidyamāno ’py avabhāsate yo vaikāriko rājasa-sarga eṣaḥ brahma svayaṁ jyotir ato vibhāti brahmendriyārthātma-vikāra-citram
- avidyamānaḥ
- actually not existing
- api
- although
- avabhāsate
- appears
- yaḥ
- which
- vaikārikaḥ
- manifestation of transformations
- rājasa
- of the mode of passion
- sargaḥ
- the creation
- eṣaḥ
- this
- brahma
- the Absolute Truth (on the other hand)
- svayam
- established in Himself
- jyotiḥ
- luminous
- ataḥ
- therefore
- vibhāti
- becomes manifest
- brahma
- the Absolute Truth
- indriya
- of the senses
- artha
- their objects
- ātma
- the mind
- vikāra
- and of the transformations of the five gross elements
- citram
- as the variety
Although thus not existing in reality, this manifestation of transformations created from the mode of passion appears real because the self-manifested, self-luminous Absolute Truth exhibits Himself in the form of the material variety of the senses, the sense objects, the mind and the elements of physical nature.