Verse 3.1.36

Sanskrit text, Unicode transliteration and English translation of verse 3.1.36:

सैव भावविकारेषु षडवस्थाः प्रपद्यते ।
क्रमेण शक्तिभिः स्वाभिरेवं प्रत्ययभासते ॥ ३६ ॥

saiva bhāvavikāreṣu ṣaḍavasthāḥ prapadyate |
krameṇa śaktibhiḥ svābhirevaṃ pratyayabhāsate || 36 ||

36. It is this universal which assumes six states in the transformations of Being. On account of its powers, it appears so in a sequence.

Commentary

The author now states that, according to the author of the Nirukta also, all actions are unreal manifestations of Being.

[Read verse 36 above]

[That all actions are only unreal manifestations of Being (satta) is supported by Yāska also. He quotes with approval the view of Vārṣyāyaṇi who said that bhāva or Being undergoes six transformations: it is born, it exists, it changes, it increases, it decreases and it is destroyed. A thing is first born, then it is said to exist, what exists necessarily undergoes change, change means growth and then decay and, finally, comes destruction. (See Ni. 1.2.9.) These so called transformations (vikāra) are not real. Here vikāra only means vivarta, an unreal manifestation. Followers of Āgama maintain that Brahman who is omnipotent has a power called ‘Nescience’ on account of which the one Brahman is presented as many. Because what is manifested has multiplicity, the power which is One, is spoken of as being many].

The author now explains how the manifestations appear in a sequence.