न संदृशेतिष्ठति रूपमस्य
न चक्षुषा पश्यति कश्चनैनम् ।
हृदा मनीषा मनसाऽभिक्लृप्तो
य एतद्विदुरमृतास्तेभवन्ति ॥ ९
NA SANDASHE TISHTATI RUPAMASHYA
NA CHAKSHUSHA PASHYATI KASCHNA ENAM |
HRUDA MANISHA MANASABHIKIUPTO
YA ETAD VIDOOR AMRUTASTE BHAVANTI ||9
HIS FORM CAN NOT BE SEEN, NOONE HOLDS HIS FORM IN EYES
HE IS REVEALED BY (CONTROLLING ) MIND , INTELLECT AND (DEVELOPING
INTUITIONTHROUGH )HEART (THROUGH MEDITATION) ,
THOSE WHO KNOW THIS BRAHAMAN,BECOME IMMORTAL||9
This Shloka is continuation of the same thought process and education that Yamaraj is giving to Nachiketa. When the Lord of Death says that one cannot see the Brahman, it is meant to be all the sense organs. So it means we cannot see it or hearing it or smell it or touch it or taste it. So the meaning is that sense organs cannot perceive it. But then the question come in as to how do we perceive it? The answer is given in next line. When we quiet the mind and the intellect, then we can perceive with heart. The mins and intellect are not good instrument for perceiving Brahman. But one needs intuition and when on acts based on 'heart', it is not mind or intellect ,but it is with intuition . Also we have seen in some of the previous Shlokas, that IT resides in the cave of heart .
So, to perceive it , one has to take mind and intellect out of the equation and also take out the senses and that can ne done by mediation only. So when one starts doing mediation, one has to stop the activity of senses (this is done with engaging them with light, perfume, calming music etc ) and then the mind and also get intellect out of the process, and then the intellect develops. With that one can perceive the Brahman.
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