यस्त्वमेकोऽवभासात्मा योऽहमेते जनाश्च ये । यश्च न त्वमबुद्धात्मा नाऽहं नैते जनाश्च यः ॥ ७१ ॥
yastvamēkō’vabhāsātmā yō’hamētē janāśca yē | yaśca na tvamabuddhātmā nā’haṁ naitē janāśca yaḥ || 71 ||
Translation
Who is you, the one self-shining being, who is I, and who are these people; and who, unknown, is not you, not I, not these people.
Word by word
- yas
- (yaḥ) who
- tvam
- you
- ēkō
- the one
- avabhāsa
- self-shining
- ātmā
- being
- yō
- who
- aham
- I
- ētē
- these
- janāś
- (janāḥ) people
- ca
- and
- yē
- who are
- na
- not
- abuddha
- unknown
- naitē
- (na ete) not these
- yaḥ
- who
Meaning
Here the teaching turns to the hearer. The commentary: the one self-shining being, when realised by you, is you, the one; when realised by me, it is I; when realised by others, it is each of them. And when it is not known, it is neither you nor I nor anyone. Known, he is the Self of each; unknown, he seems absent from all, and each takes himself to be something else.