यः पुमान् सांख्यदृष्टीनां ब्रह्म वेदान्तवादिनाम् । विज्ञानमात्रं विज्ञानविदामेकान्तनिर्मलम् ॥ ६ ॥
yaḥ pumān sāṁkhyadṛṣṭīnāṁ brahma vēdāntavādinām | vijñānamātraṁ vijñānavidāmēkāntanirmalam || 6 ||
Translation
who is the Person to those of the Sāṅkhya view, Brahman to those who speak the Vedānta, consciousness alone, utterly stainless, to the knowers of consciousness,
Word by word
- yaḥ
- who
- pumān
- the Person (puruṣa)
- sāṁkhya
- of Sāṅkhya
- dṛṣṭīnāṁ
- to those of the view
- brahma
- Brahman
- vēdānta
- the Vedānta
- vādinām
- to those who speak
- vijñāna
- consciousness
- mātraṁ
- alone
- vidām
- to the knowers
- ēkānta
- utterly
- nirmalam
- stainless
Meaning
Verses 6 and 7 go round the schools of the time. To Sāṅkhya he is the Person (puruṣa), the pure witness; to the Vedānta, Brahman; to those who hold that only consciousness is (vijñānavāda), consciousness alone, utterly pure, which the commentary explains as momentary consciousness, as that school teaches. The commentary draws the point: each school, by the power of its own understanding, imagines its own doctrine about him, but about the Self who is the ground of them all there is no quarrel. The verse does not say the schools teach the same thing; it says that what each of them is trying to name is one.