नेहैव तत्र नामोर्ध्वं नाऽधो न च गमागमाः । अन्यदेव पदं किञ्चित्तस्माद्देहागमं हि तत् ॥ ७ ॥
nēhaiva tatra nāmōrdhvaṁ nā’dhō na ca gamāgamāḥ | anyadēva padaṁ kiñcittasmāddēhāgamaṁ hi tat || 7 ||
Translation
Neither here nor there is there any above, nor below, nor going and coming. That state is something other, and so it is beyond the reach of the embodied.
Word by word
- na
- neither
- iha
- here
- ēva
- indeed
- tatra
- there
- nāma
- any
- ūrdhvaṁ
- above
- adhō
- below
- ca
- and
- gama
- going
- āgamāḥ
- and coming
- anyad
- (anyat) other
- padaṁ
- state
- kiñcit
- something
- tasmād
- (tasmāt) so
- dēha
- of the embodied
- agamaṁ
- beyond the reach
- hi
- indeed
- tat
- that
Meaning
What was said of falling and rising was said from the point of view of those who experience it. In the supreme space itself there is no up or down and no motion. The first commentary: it is another thing altogether, beyond the reach of speech and mind, free of every division of direction. "Beyond the reach of the embodied" (dehāgamam): no one who takes himself to be a body can arrive there, since it has no place to arrive at.