नाशयित्वा स्वमात्मानं मनसो वृत्तिसंक्षये । सद्रूपं यदनाख्येयं तद्रूपं तस्य वस्तुनः ॥ ३९ ॥
nāśayitvā svamātmānaṁ manasō vṛttisaṁkṣayē | sadrūpaṁ yadanākhyēyaṁ tadrūpaṁ tasya vastunaḥ || 39 ||
Translation
When the movements of the mind have wholly ceased and it has undone its own self, the being that remains, which cannot be named: that is the form of that reality.
Word by word
- nāśayitvā
- having undone
- svam
- its own
- ātmānaṁ
- self
- manasō
- (manasaḥ) of the mind
- vṛtti
- of the movements
- saṁkṣayē
- when (there is) the cessation
- sad
- the being
- rūpaṁ
- which is
- yad
- (yat) that
- anākhyēyaṁ
- which cannot be named
- tad
- that
- tasya
- of that
- vastunaḥ
- reality
Meaning
The first pointer. The commentary takes it in samādhi: when, by restraining the mind from objects, its movements (vṛtti) are exhausted, the mind's own form also comes to an end, as a fire goes out when its logs are consumed; and what remains then, self-luminous being without name or form, is the form of that real thing. The verse does not say that samādhi produces Brahman. It says that when the mind, which is all that ever covered it, has gone, what is left is That; samādhi only shows what was there all along.