सदेहा वा विदेहा वा मुक्तता न प्रमास्पदम् । अस्माकमपि तस्याऽस्ति स्वैकताऽस्त्यविभागिनी ॥ ६ ॥
sadēhā vā vidēhā vā muktatā na pramāspadam | asmākamapi tasyā’sti svaikatā’styavibhāginī || 6 ||
Translation
Embodied or bodiless, freedom is not an object of perception. For us too, and for him, there is only the undivided oneness of the Self.
Word by word
- sadēhā
- embodied
- vā
- or
- vidēhā
- bodiless
- muktatā
- freedom
- na
- not
- pramā
- of perception
- āspadam
- an object
- asmākam
- for us
- api
- too
- tasya
- for him
- asti
- there is
- sva
- of the Self
- ēkatā
- oneness
- asty
- (asti) is
- avibhāginī
- undivided
Meaning
Freedom with or without a body is not something that can be perceived (na pramā-āspadam); terms like these, the commentary says, belong to imagination, not to truth. For Vasiṣṭha and for Vyāsa alike there is only one's own undivided oneness (sva-ekatā avibhāginī). The commentary adds why the knower's body does not fall at once: knowledge cancels only what contradicts it, and the body is the fruit of karma already begun (prārabdha), which knowledge does not oppose; as the impressions of a dream linger a little after waking, the body goes on until that karma is spent. With this the doubt is settled.