Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam / Consciousness and the mind (चित्त) / 4
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the Pratyabhijñāhṛdayam (प्रत्यभिज्ञाहृदयम्)
चितिसंकोचात्मा चेतनोऽपि संकुचितविश्वमयः citisaṃkocātmā cetano 'pi saṃkucitaviśvamayaḥ
The line
Even the conscious one, whose nature is the contraction of consciousness, is made of a contracted universe.
नेपालीमा
चेतन पनि, जसको स्वभाव चितिको संकोच हो, संकुचित विश्वबाट बनेको हुन्छ।
Where it sits
This is the first step down from the free citi (चिति). 5 names the mind as that same consciousness once she has come down.
Split: citisaṃkocātmā (चितिसंकोचात्मा) + cetanaḥ (चेतनः) + api (अपि) + saṃkucitaviśvamayaḥ (संकुचितविश्वमयः)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| citisaṃkocātmā (चितिसंकोचात्मा) | nominative singular, masculine | one whose nature is the contraction of consciousness. saṃkoca (संकोच) is a drawing-in. ātman (आत्मन्) at the end means having that as one's nature. |
| cetanaḥ (चेतनः) | nominative singular, masculine | the conscious one. Recited cetano (चेतनो) before a vowel. |
| api (अपि) | indeclinable | even. Even he. |
| saṃkucitaviśvamayaḥ (संकुचितविश्वमयः) | nominative singular, masculine | made of a contracted universe. saṃkucita (संकुचित) is contracted. maya (मय) means made of. |
The phrases
Even cetanaḥ (चेतनः), the one who is conscious, has contraction as his nature, and so he is made of a universe that has been contracted. api (अपि) is the turn: consciousness does not stay only as the free citi (चिति) of 1.
Sanskrit in this line
cetanaḥ (चेतनः) plus api (अपि) is cetano 'pi (चेतनोऽपि). The visarga becomes o (ओ), and the a (अ) of api (अपि) is the avagraha.
Say it back
Say what even the conscious one is made of.