यो जागर्ति सुषुप्तस्थो यस्य जाग्रन्न विद्यते । यस्य निर्वासनो बोधः स जीवन्मुक्तः उच्यते ॥ ७ ॥
yō jāgarti suṣuptasthō yasya jāgranna vidyatē | yasya nirvāsanō bōdhaḥ sa jīvanmuktaḥ ucyatē || 7 ||
Translation
He who is awake while dwelling in deep sleep, for whom the waking state does not exist, whose awakening is free of latent desires: he is called freed while living.
Word by word
- yō
- he who
- jāgarti
- is awake
- suṣupta
- in deep sleep
- sthō
- dwelling
- yasya
- for whom
- jāgrat
- the waking state
- na
- not
- vidyatē
- does exist
- nirvāsanō
- free of latent desires
- bōdhaḥ
- awakening
- sa
- he
- jīvan
- while living
- muktaḥ
- freed
- ucyatē
- is called
Meaning
The commentary unfolds the paradox. He dwells in the changeless Self as in deep sleep, yet he is always awake in that Self, because the sleep of ignorance has ended. And for him there is no "waking state" in the ordinary sense, the grasping of objects through the senses as real, because body and senses have been seen through. His knowing has no vāsanās, the latent impressions that turn knowing back into wanting. Waking and sleep trade places: the world's waking is his sleep, and what the world sleeps through, the Self, is where he is awake.