Bhashya
नामोपक्रममाशान्तं कार्यकारणत्वेन निमित्तनैमित्तिकत्वे-न च उत्तरोत्तरभूयस्तया अवस्थितं स्मृतिनिमित्तसद्भावमा-शारशनापाशैर्विपाशितं सर्वं सर्वतो बिसमिव तन्तुभिर्य-स्मिन्प्राणे समर्पितम् , येन च सर्वतो व्यापिना अन्तर्बहि-र्गतेन सूत्रे मणिगणा इव सूत्रेण ग्रथितं विधृतं च, स एषप्राणो वा आशाया भूयान ।कथमस्य भूयस्त्वमिति, आहदृष्टान्तेन समर्थयन तद्भूयस्त्वम्—यथा वै लोके रथचक्रस्यअराः रथनाभौ समर्पिताः संप्रोताः संप्रवेशिता इत्येतत् ,एवमस्मिँल्लिङ्गसंघातरूपे प्राणे प्रज्ञात्मनि दैहिके मुख्ये—यस्मि-न्परा देवता नामरूपव्याकरणाय आदर्शादौ प्रतिबिम्बव-
In plain words
From name up to hope, knit together through cause and effect, instrument and result, growing ever more vast, bound by the cords and nooses of desire like a lotus stalk held by its fibers—everything rests supported in that Prana. Like gems strung on a thread, held and bound together by that all-pervading presence moving within and without, this very Prana is greater than hope. How does its greatness appear? To make this clear, the text gives an example: Just as the spokes of a chariot wheel are securely fixed, fitted, and driven into the central hub, so in this primary Prana, the conscious self embodied as the subtle aggregate—in whom the supreme deity, like a reflection in a mirror, for the unfolding of name and form...
Close to the Sanskrit
Starting from name up to hope, positioned as cause and effect and as instrument and instrumented through progressive abundance, bound with the nooses of the ropes of hope like a lotus stalk by its fibers, all of this is supported in that Prana; and by which all-pervading one, moving both internally and externally, it is strung and sustained like multitudes of gems on a thread, this very Prana is indeed greater than hope. How its greatness is, he says, supporting that greatness with an example: Just as indeed in the world the spokes of a chariot wheel are fixed, threaded, and inserted into the chariot nave, so in this Prana which has the form of the subtle aggregate, which is the conscious self, embodied and principal—in which the supreme deity, for the manifestation of name and form, like a reflection in a mirror...