Sanskrit · Devanagari
भूमिरापोऽनलो वायुः खं मनो बुद्धिरेव च। अहंकार इतीयं मे भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा ॥
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bhūmirāpo.analo vāyuḥ khaṃ mano buddhireva ca ahaṃkāra itīyaṃ me bhinnā prakṛtiraṣṭadhā
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882Earth, water, fire, air, space, mind, understanding, and egoism, thus is my nature divided eightfold. But this is a lower (form of my) nature.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।7.4।। भूमिः इति पृथिवीतन्मात्रमुच्यते न स्थूला भिन्ना प्रकृतिरष्टधा इति वचनात्। तथा अबादयोऽपि तन्मात्राण्येव उच्यन्ते आपः अनलः वायुः खम्। मनः इति मनसः कारणमहंकारो गृह्यते। बुद्धिः इति अहंकारकारणं महत्तत्त्वम्। अहंकारः इति अविद्यासंयुक्तमव्यक्तम्। यथा विषसंयुक्तमन्नं विषमित्युच्यते एवमहंकारवासनावत् अव्यक्तं मूलकारणमहंकार इत्युच्यते प्रवर्तकत्वात् अहंकारस्य। अहंकार एव हि सर्वस्य प्रवृत्तिबीजं दृष्टं लोके। इतीयं यथोक्ता प्रकृतिः मे मम ऐश्वरी मायाशक्तिः अष्टधा भिन्ना भेदमागता।।
63eb56022d4a…Rāmānuja
7.4 Know that Prakrti, the material cause of this universe, which consists of endless varieties of objects and means of enjoyment and places of enjoyment, is divided into eightfold substances - earth, water, fire, air and ether, having smell, taste etc., as their attributes, and Manas along with kindred sense organs and the categories Mahat and ego-sense - all belonging to Me.
c143ed5e36ad…Swami Sivananda
7.4 भूमिः earth? आपः water? अनलः fire? वायुः air? खम् ether? मनः mind? बुद्धिः intellect? एव even? च and? अहङ्कारः egoism? इति thus? इयम् this? मे My? भिन्ना divided? प्रकृतिः Nature? अष्टधा eightfold.Commentary This eightfold Nature constitutes the inferior Nature or Apara Prakriti. The five gross elements are formed out of the Tanmatras or rootelements through the process of Pancikarana or fivefold mixing. Tanmatras are the subtle rootelements. In this verse? earth? water? etc.? represent the subtle or rudimentary elements out of which the five gross elements are formed.Mind stands here for its cause Ahamkara intellect for its cause the Mahat Ahamkara for the Avyaktam or the unmanifested (MulaPrakriti) united with Avidya which is conjoined with all kinds of Vasanas or latent tendencies. As Ahamkara (Iness) is the cause for all the actions of every individual and as Ahamkara is the most vital principle in man on which all the other Tattvas or principles depend? the Avyaktam combined with the Ahamkara is itself called here Ahamkara? just as food which is mixed with poison is itself called poison.
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