तस्य चेत्योन्मुखत्वं तु चेत्यासंभवनं विना । रोद्धुं न शक्यते दृश्यं चेत्यं शाम्यति वै कथम् ॥ ११ ॥
tasya cētyōnmukhatvaṁ tu cētyāsaṁbhavanaṁ vinā | rōddhuṁ na śakyatē dṛśyaṁ cētyaṁ śāmyati vai katham || 11 ||
Translation
Its turning towards the knowable cannot be held back unless the knowable is found not to be. How else could the seen, the knowable, be stilled?
Word by word
- tasya
- its
- cētya
- the knowable
- unmukhatvaṁ
- turning towards
- tu
- but
- asaṁbhavanaṁ
- being found not to be
- vinā
- unless
- rōddhuṁ
- to be held back
- na
- not
- śakyatē
- can
- dṛśyaṁ
- the seen
- cētyaṁ
- the knowable
- śāmyati
- be stilled
- vai
- else
- katham
- how
Meaning
An objection, which the commentary states: then why knowledge? Yoga, the restraint of the mind, could hold back the jīva's pull towards objects. The answer: without destroying the knowable at its root, by knowledge, the pull cannot be held back. How could the seen world be uprooted without knowing? Even the samādhi that rests in Brahman, the commentary says, is not possible without knowledge. Holding the mind still is not the same as seeing that its objects are not there.