ननु यदि पारमार्थिकं चिच्छक्तिपदं सकलभेदकवलनस्वभावं तत् अस्य मायापदेऽपि तथारूपेण भवितव्यं यथा जलदाच्छादितस्यापि भानोः भावावभासकत्वम् ।इत्याशङ्क्य आहचितिवह्निरवरोहपदे छन्नोऽपि मात्रया मेयेन्धनं प्लुष्यति ॥ १४ ॥चितिरेव विश्वग्रसनशीलत्वात् वह्निः असौ एव अवरोहपदे - मायाप्रमातृतायां छन्नोऽपि - स्वातन्त्र्यात् आच्छादितस्वभावोऽपि भूरिभूतिच्छन्नाग्निवत् मात्रया - अंशेन नीलपीतादिप्रमेयेन्धनं प्लुष्यति - स्वात्मसात् करोति ।मात्रापदस्य इदम् आकूतम् - यत् कवलयन् अपि सार्वात्म्येन न ग्रसते अपि तु अंशेन संस्कारात्मना उत्थापयति ।ग्रासकत्वं च सर्वप्रमातॄणां स्वानुभवत एव सिद्धम् ।यदुक्तं श्रीमदुत्पलदेवपादैः निजस्तोत्रेषुवर्तन्ते जन्तवोऽशेषा अपि ब्रह्मेन्द्रविष्णवः ।ग्रसमानास्ततो वन्दे देव विश्वं भवन्मयम् ॥इति ॥ १४ ॥
In plain words
But if the true level of the power of cit has the nature of swallowing all difference, it must be so even at the level of māyā, as the sun, even when covered by clouds, still lights up things. Anticipating this, he says: The fire of citi, even when hidden at the level of descent, burns the fuel of the knowable in part. Citi herself is fire, since it is her nature to devour the universe. This same one, at the level of descent, that is, in being the knower in māyā, even when hidden, that is, even with her nature covered by her own freedom, like a fire covered with much ash, burns in part, that is, in a portion, the fuel of the knowable, blue, yellow and the like; that is, she makes it her own. The intent of the words "in part" is this: though she swallows, she does not devour wholly, but raises it up in a portion, in the form of an impression. And that all knowers devour is established by one's own experience alone. As the venerable Utpaladeva has said in his hymns: "All living beings, even Brahmā, Indra and Viṣṇu, live by devouring. So, O God, I praise the universe as made of You."