Enlightenment

They consider the fourth to be this: not conscious of the inner, not conscious of the outer, not conscious of both, not a mass of consciousness, not conscious, not unconscious; unseen, beyond dealings, ungraspable, without marks, unthinkable, indescribable, whose essence is the certainty of the one Self, in which the world has ceased, tranquil, benign, non-dual. That is the Self; that is to be known.

नान्तःप्रज्ञं न बहिष्प्रज्ञं नोभयतःप्रज्ञं न प्रज्ञानघनं न प्रज्ञं नाप्रज्ञम् । अदृष्टमव्यवहार्यमग्राह्यमलक्षणं अचिन्त्यमव्यपदेश्यमेकात्मप्रत्ययसारं प्रपञ्चोपशमं शान्तं शिवमद्वैतं चतुर्थं मन्यन्ते स आत्मा स विज्ञेयः ॥ ७॥

Having attained this, the seers, content in knowledge, their selves perfected, free of passion, tranquil—those wise ones, having reached the all-pervading on every side, their selves absorbed, enter into the All itself.

संप्राप्यैनमृषयो ज्ञानतृप्ताः कृतात्मानो वीतरागाः प्रशान्ताः । ते सर्वगं सर्वतः प्राप्य धीरा युक्तात्मानः सर्वमेवाविशन्ति ॥ ५॥

The Blessed Lord said: I will declare once more the supreme knowledge, the best of all knowledge, knowing which all the sages have passed from here to the highest perfection.

श्रीभगवानुवाच | परं भूयः प्रवक्ष्यामि ज्ञानानां ज्ञानमुत्तमम् | यज्ज्ञात्वा मुनयः सर्वे परां सिद्धिमितो गताः ||१४-१||

When he perceives the varied existence of beings as resting in the One, and their expansion from that alone, then he attains Brahman.

यदा भूतपृथग्भावमेकस्थमनुपश्यति | तत एव च विस्तारं ब्रह्म सम्पद्यते तदा ||१३-३१||

When, for the one who knows, all beings have become the very Self, what delusion, what sorrow can there be for one who sees this oneness?

यस्मिन्सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मैवाभूद्विजानतः । तत्र को मोहः कः शोक एकत्वमनुपश्यतः

Whoever knows me as unborn and without beginning, the great Lord of the worlds, is undeluded among mortals and freed from all sins.

यो मामजमनादिं च वेत्ति लोकमहेश्वरम् | असम्मूढः स मर्त्येषु सर्वपापैः प्रमुच्यते ||१०-३||

But for those whose ignorance is destroyed by knowledge of the Self, that knowledge, like the sun, illuminates the Supreme.

ज्ञानेन तु तदज्ञानं येषां नाशितमात्मनः | तेषामादित्यवज्ज्ञानं प्रकाशयति तत्परम् ||५-१६||

Just as a mirror covered with clay, when well cleaned, shines brightly full of light, so the embodied one, having seen the true nature of the Self, becomes one, fulfilled, and free from sorrow.

यथैव बिम्बं मृदयोपलिप्तं तेजोमयं भ्राजते तत् सुधान्तम् । तद्वाऽऽत्मतत्त्वं प्रसमीक्ष्य देही एकः कृतार्थो भवते वीतशोकः ॥ १४॥

Taijasa, whose sphere is dream, is the letter u, the second element—from 'exaltation' or from 'being in between.' One who knows this exalts the flow of knowledge and becomes balanced; in his family no one is born who does not know Brahman.

स्वप्नस्थानस्तैजस उकारो द्वितीया मात्रोत्कर्षात् उभयत्वाद्वोत्कर्षति ह वै ज्ञानसन्ततिं समानश्च भवति नास्याब्रह्मवित्कुले भवति य एवं वेद ॥ १०॥

Salutations to the Guru — by whom this mind is made conscious, yet who cannot be grasped by that very mind; who pervades the states of waking, dreaming, and deep sleep.

येन चेतयते हीदं चित्तं चेतयते न यम् । जाग्रत्स्वप्नसुषुप्त्यादि तस्मै श्रीगुरवे नमः

When your intellect passes beyond the thicket of delusion, then you will grow indifferent to all that has been heard and all that is yet to be heard.

यदा ते मोहकलिलं बुद्धिर्व्यतितरिष्यति | तदा गन्तासि निर्वेदं श्रोतव्यस्य श्रुतस्य च ||२-५२||

Indeed, for the one who knows this teaching of Brahman in this way, the sun neither rises nor sets; for him there is day, once and for all.

न ह वा अस्मा उदेति न निम्लोचति सकृद्दिवा हैवास्मै भवति य एतामेवं ब्रह्मोपनिषदं वेद

Once born, he perceived the beings, thinking: 'What here would one wish to speak of as other (than Brahman)?' He saw this very Person as the all-pervading Brahman, and said: 'I have seen this.'

स जातो भूतान्यभिव्यैख्यत् किमिहान्यं वावदिषदिति ।स एतमेव पुरुषं ब्रह्म ततममपश्यत् । इदमदर्शनमिती ३ ॥ १३॥

Then, having risen straight up from there, it will no longer rise or set; it will stand alone in the middle. On this there is a verse:

अथ तत ऊर्ध्व उदेत्य नैवोदेता नास्तमेतैकल एव मध्ये स्थाता तदेष श्लोकः