Word meanings
- utkrāmantam
- departing
- sthitam
- residing
- vā api
- or even
- bhuñjānam
- enjoys
- vā
- or
- guṇa-anvitam
- under the spell of the modes of material nature
- vimūḍhāḥ
- the ignorant
- na
- not
- anupaśyanti
- percieve
- paśyanti
- behold
- jñāna-cakṣuṣaḥ
- those who possess the eyes of knowledge
Translations
The deluded do not see Him who departs, stays, and enjoys; but those who possess the eye of knowledge behold Him.
The ignorant do not see that it is He who is present in life and departs at death, or even that it is He who enjoys pleasure through the qualities. Only the eye of wisdom sees this.
Persons who are diversely deluded do not see it even when it is leaving, residing, experiencing, or in association with the qualities; those with the eye of knowledge see.
शरीरको छोड़कर जाते हुए या दूसरे शरीरमें स्थित हुए अथवा विषयोंको भोगते हुए भी गुणोंसे युक्त जीवात्माके स्वरूपको मूढ़ मनुष्य नहीं जानते, ज्ञानरूपी नेत्रोंवाले ज्ञानी मनुष्य ही जानते हैं।Commentary
Though the Self is nearest and comes most easily within their field of vision or consciousness, the ignorant and the deluded are not able to behold Him, because they are swayed by the alities of Nature their minds constantly run towards the sensual objects and are saturated with passion they identify the Self with the body their vision is engrossed in external forms. But those who are endowed with the inner eye of intuition do behold Him. Yama said to Nachiketas The selfexistent Brahma created the senses with outgoing tendencies therefore man beholds the external universe and not the internal Self.
He aded But some wise men with their senses turned away from the objects, desirous of immortality, turn their gaze inwards and behold the Self within (seated in their heart). (Katha Upanishad IV.1)Those who possess the inner eye of knowledge behold that the Self is entirely distinct from the body. They realise the Selfs separate existence from the body and know that the body moves and acts on account of Its presence therein, just as the iron moves and acts in the presence of the magnet.