Sat-darshana Bhashya (translation)

Verse 4.

आरभ्यते जीवजगत्परात्म-
तत्त्वाभिधानेन मतं समस्तम् ।
इदं वयं यावदहमति स्यात्
सर्वोत्तमाऽहंमतिशून्यनिष्ठा॥

God, world and soul, from this triple truth, all religions proceed. While the ego reigns, the three are apart. Transcending all states is the poise of Self where ego is lost.

All religions begin with the three-fold truth, God world and soul, but they do not end there. Even the Absolute monist advaitin admits the trinity in the phenomenal existence. Then if the essential truth of all existence is one Supreme Reality, how is it that it assumes the three-fold form of God, world and soul? “While the ego reigns, the three are apart.” These three are separate from one another only as long as the ego endures. It is the ego that carves a three-fold category out of the One that exists, the Real. But there is a state in which it is outgrown and to live in it is the supreme poise of the Self. “Transcending all states is the poise of self where the ego is lost."

There are many methods of spiritual discipline recommended in the scriptures and this one of keeping to the supreme poise of the Self is the highest of them all; for here as the result of the dissolution of the ego, Brahman, the Supreme Reality and source of the triple truth, reveals itself to direct perception, to immediate experience. It is the nature of the ego that through it the One undivided supreme Brahman presents itself as the triple truth, as the manifold existence. This ego is mentioned as a knot granthi, an obstruction to the apprehension of the truth of the Supreme Reality.

As God, world and soul are not apprehended as three separate existences in the absence of the ego, the disputations and conclusions of religio-philosophic systems aiming at solving the riddle of the world, such as whether it is real or unreal, are not directly helpful to a knowledge of the Truth. So the next verse proceeds :