बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च ।सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ॥
bahir antaś ca bhūtānām acaraṃ caram eva ca |sūkṣmatvāt tad avijñeyaṃ dūrasthaṃ cāntike ca tat ||
- बहिः अन्तः · bahiḥ antaḥ
- outside and inside
- भूतानाम् · bhūtānām
- of beings
- अचरम् चरम् · acaram caram
- the unmoving and the moving
- सूक्ष्मत्वात् · sūkṣmatvāt
- due to subtlety
- अविज्ञेयम् · avijñeyam
- hard to comprehend
- दूरस्थम् · dūrastham
- standing far
- अन्तिके · antike
- near
“Outside and inside beings, the unmoving and the moving too — through subtlety it is hard to grasp — and it stands both far away and near.”
— Original plain-language translation
Distance collapses: the farthest is the nearest, the subtlest the most intimate. 'Hard to grasp' is honest method — the knowable is not an object among objects but the ground of all grasping.
— Reader's notes (original)