Sanskrit · Devanagari
न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः। यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
na tadbhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ yadgatvā na nivartante taddhāma paramaṃ mama
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882The sun does not light it, nor the moon, nor fire. That is my highest abode, going to which none returns.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।15.6।। -- तत् धाम इति व्यवहितेन धाम्ना संबध्यते। तत् धाम तेजोरूपं पदं न भासयते सूर्यः आदित्यः सर्वावभासनशक्तिमत्त्वेऽपि सति। तथा न शशाङ्कः चन्द्रः? न पावकः न अग्निरपि। यत् धाम वैष्णवं पदं गत्वा प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते? यच्च सूर्यादिः न भासयते? तत् धाम पदं परमं विष्णोः मम पदम्? यत् गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते (गीता 15।6) इत्युक्तम्।।ननु सर्वा हि गतिः आगत्यन्ता? संयोगाः विप्रयोगान्ताः इति प्रसिद्धम्। कथम् उच्यते तत् धाम गतानां नास्ति निवृत्तिः इति श्रृणु तत्र कारणम् --,
155f56ee219f…Rāmānuja
15.6 The sun cannot illumine the light of the self, nor moon, nor fire. For, knowledge is indeed that which illumines them all. External lights, however, are helpful only in removing the darkness which hinders the contact between the senses and the objects. It is the intelligence of the self that reveals such external lights. What reveals this (i.e., the self) is Yoga (i.e., meditation) only. Beginningless Karma is the hindrance. It has been taught that the way for the erasing of Karma is self-surrender to the Lord through detachment etc. That supreme light, reaching which they do not return any more is the self, which is My glory (Vibhuti) and therefore belongs to Me and is a part of Myself. Such is the meaning. The supremacy of this light (i.e., individual self) consists in its capacity to illumine the light of knowledge. Knowledge alone can illuminate all things (including the light of the sun which sheds only physical light on objects.).
dd7e920b7796…Swami Sivananda
15.6 न not? तत् that? भासयते illumines? सूर्यः the sun? न not? शशाङ्कः the moon? न not? पावकः fire? यत् to which? गत्वा having gone? न not? निवर्तन्ते (they) return? तत् that? धाम Abode? परमम् Supreme? मम My.Commentary That supreme abode is selfillumined for Brahman is selfluminous. It existed before the sun? the moon and the fire came into existence during creation. It remains even after they dissolve into the Unmanifested during the dissolution of the world.This verse is taken from the Kathopanishad The sun does not shine there? nor do the moon and the stars? nor does this lightning shine and much less this fire. When It shines? everything shines after It? by Its light? all these shine (Chap.II?5.15). The same idea occurs in the Svetasvatara Upanishad (6.14) and the Mundaka Upanishad (II.2.10). The sun? the moon? etc.? derive their light from Para Brahman. Nothing else is needed for illuminating the Supreme Being because It is selfluminous.Dhama paramam Supreme abode or superexcellent seat or Para Brahman.Though the sun is endowed with the power of illumining all? it cannot illumine the Supreme Being.यत् धाम वैष्णवं पदं गत्वा प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते यत् च सूर्यादिभिः न भासयते तत् धाम पदं परमं मम विष्णोः।That abode? to which having gone? none returns? and which the sun? moon? stars? lightning and fire do not illumine? is the highest abode of Vishnu.(Cf.VIII.21)
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