Devanagari
आद्यन्तावस्य यन्मध्यमिदमन्यदहं बहि:
यतोऽव्ययस्य नैतानि तत् सत्यं ब्रह्म चिद्भवान् ॥ ५ ॥
Verse text
ādy-antāv asya yan madhyam
idam anyad ahaṁ bahiḥ
yato ’vyayasya naitāni
tat satyaṁ brahma cid bhavān
Synonyms
ādi
—
the beginning
;
antau
—
and the end
;
asya
—
of this manifested cosmos or of anything material or visible
;
yat
—
that which
;
madhyam
—
between the beginning and the end, the sustenance
;
idam
—
this cosmic manifestation
;
anyat
—
anything other than You
;
aham
—
the wrong mental conception
;
bahiḥ
—
outside of You
;
yataḥ
—
because of
;
avyayasya
—
the inexhaustible
;
na
—
not
;
etāni
—
all these differences
;
tat
—
that
;
satyam
—
the Absolute Truth
;
brahma
—
the Supreme
;
cit
—
spiritual
;
bhavān
—
Your Lordship .
Translation
The manifest, the unmanifest, false ego and the beginning, maintenance and annihilation of this cosmic manifestation all come from You, the Supreme Personality of Godhead. But because You are the Absolute Truth, the supreme absolute spirit soul, the Supreme Brahman, such changes as birth, death and sustenance do not exist in You.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
That from which visible things like birth, death and life within this universe arises and that from which invisible things like the conception of I and mine arise, is you alone, the absolute Brahman. You, the indestructible Brahman, do not have beginning, middle and end.
“You say that I am the material of the universe, but the universe has a beginning, is temporary and unconscious. Are you saying I am temporary and unconscious?” No. From whom arise birth and death in this world, and living (madhyam) as well, anything you see in this world (asya), and other things you cannot see—I (aham) and possessiveness (bahiḥ)—that Brahman with spiritual form is you. You, the indestructible Brahman, do not have beginning, middle and end (etāni).
Purport
According to the Vedic
mantras, yato vā imāni bhūtāni jāyante:
everything is an emanation of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. As stated by the Lord Himself in
Bhagavad-gītā
(7.4)
:
bhūmir āpo ’nalo vāyuḥ
khaṁ mano buddhir eva ca
ahaṅkāra itīyaṁ me
bhinnā prakṛtir aṣṭadhā
“Earth, water, fire, air, ether, mind, intelligence and false ego — all together these eight comprise My separated material energies.” In other words, the ingredients of the cosmic manifestation also consist of the energy of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. This does not mean, however, that because the ingredients come from Him, He is no longer complete.
Pūrṇasya pūrṇam ādāya pūrṇam evāvaśiṣyate:
“Because He is the complete whole, even though so many complete units emanate from Him, He remains the complete balance.” Thus the Lord is called
avyaya,
inexhaustible. Unless we accept the Absolute Truth as
acintya-bhedābheda,
simultaneously one and different, we cannot have a clear conception of the Absolute Truth. The Lord is the root of everything.
Aham ādir hi devānām:
He is the original cause of all the
devas,
or demigods.
Ahaṁ sarvasya prabhavaḥ:
everything emanates from Him. In all cases — nominative, objective, positive, negative and so on — whatever we may conceive of in this entire cosmic manifestation is in fact the Supreme Lord. For Him there are no such distinctions as “this is mine, and this belongs to someone else,” because He is everything. He is therefore called
avyaya
— changeless and inexhaustible. Because the Supreme Lord is
avyaya,
He is the Absolute Truth, the fully spiritual Supreme Brahman.