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129 The ātmā is of the nature of intelligence being unknowable by other things, while it sees everything. This is explained.
यः पश्यति स्वयं सर्वं यं न पश्यति किञ्चन । यश्चेतयति बुद्ध्यादि न तद्यं चेतयत्ययम् ॥१२९॥ yaḥ paśyati svayam sarvam yam na paśyati kiñcana yaścetayati buddhyādi na tad yam cetayatyayam 11
That which perceives everything, but which nothing can perceive; that which illumines the buddhi etc., but cannot itself be illumined—that is the ātman.
That which itself sees all. Vide the śruti: nānyo'to'sti drastā (Brh.) There is no other seer. That which none else sees. Vide the śruti: na tatra cakşurgacchati na vāggacchati no manaḥ (Kena.): "There the eye does not go; speech does not go; nor does the mind”. na cakşuşā gļhyate nāpi vācā nānyair devaih (Mund): "It is not grasped by the eyes, not even by speech or by other organs”. naiva vācā na manasā prāptum sakyo na cakşuşā: "It cannot at all be attained by speech, mind or by sight (Katha)". That which makes the inanimate etc., as if shining with intelligence, that which buddhi etc., do not make intelligent, as it is intelligence in itself, that is the ātman. For what is inanimate depends on something else to inform it with intelligence; but cetanā (pure intelligence) itself is not extra-dependent that way.
130 येन विश्वमिदं व्याप्तं यं न व्याप्नोति किञ्चन ।
अभारूपमिदं सर्व यं भान्तमनुभात्ययम् ॥ १३०॥ yena viśvamidam vyāptam yam na vyāpnoti kiñcana i abhārūpamidam sarvam yam bhāntamanubhātyayam 11.
That by which this universe is enveloped; that which no object whatsoever envelops; that effulgent one on which all this (universe) of the form of none-effulgence depends for its shining—that is the ātman.
yena..kiñcana: That by which, as the material of all, as internal to everything, this universe is enveloped; that which no ooject whatsoever can envelop; for it is outside everything else.
Vide: viştabhyāhamidam krtsnam ekāmśena sthito jagat: (B.G.): "Myself enveloping all this, by a part of Me is the universe constituted."
