अत्यन्ताभावसम्पत्तौ ज्ञातृज्ञेयस्य वस्तुनः । युक्त्या शास्त्रैर्यतन्ते ये ते ब्रह्माभ्यासिनः स्थिताः ॥ २७ ॥
atyantābhāvasampattau jñātṛjñēyasya vastunaḥ | yuktyā śāstrairyatantē yē tē brahmābhyāsinaḥ sthitāḥ || 27 ||
Translation
Those who labour, by reasoning and by the scriptures, at reaching the utter non-being of the thing known and the knower: they stand as practitioners of Brahman.
Word by word
- atyanta
- utter
- abhāva
- non-being
- sampattau
- at reaching
- jñātṛ
- the knower
- jñēyasya
- known
- vastunaḥ
- of the thing
- yuktyā
- by reasoning
- śāstrair
- (śāstraiḥ) by the scriptures
- yatantē
- labour
- yē
- who
- tē
- they
- brahma
- of Brahman
- abhyāsinaḥ
- practitioners
- sthitāḥ
- stand
Meaning
The commentary: devotion to hearing and the like is also a mark of the practice of knowledge. Those who labour at the sublation of knower and known, with reasoning that settles what the means of knowing and its objects are, and with the scriptures that teach the Self, are practitioners of Brahman.