नैव वाचा न मनसा
प्राप्तुं शक्योन चक्षुषा ।
अस्तीति ब्रुवतोऽन्यत्र
कथं तदुपलभ्यते॥ १2
NAIV VACHA NA MANASA
PRAPTUM SHAKYON CHAKSHUSHA
ASTHITTI BRUVATAH ANYATRA
KATHAM TAD UPALABHYATE ||12
THE SELF CANNOT BE EXPRESSED BY SPEECH,NOT UNDERSTOOD BY MIND OE
SEEN BY EYES, HOW CAN THAT 'HE IS' BE RELISED OTHERWISE ||12
This Shloka is similar but not the same .We are told various things about the SELF or that 'I' and the one of the characteristics of the SELF IS that it cannot be seen or expressed. in words. But our understanding anything is through the senses and mind and intellect , but IT is beyond language or that it's beyond perception by sense organs .Anything that can be perceived by senses -is not SELF. The SELF is needed for perceiving everything but it itself cannot be perceived by our senses . It is beyond our senses and it is also beyond our mind and intellect. So If 'we' cannot use the senses to 'KNOW ' THAT SELF then how do we perceive it . Our only way of perceiving anything is through the senses and if the self cannot be perceived then how do we do it ?
The answer is difficult as we have gotten in a a mess when when say IT is beyond our senses . But let is take an example of my face . I cannot see my face as my eyes are on my face and so they cannot see the face . The eyes can see my hand or my leg but not my face . When we look in the mirror we see our eyes and the fave - but it is actually the image of my face and image of my eyes that I am seeing . The self can be seen same way . I can have a reflection of the Sun in a mirror and the light that comes out of the reflection of the Sun can be pointed towards real Sun and that is only way to know the SUN . The Sun is like SELF . So the reflection can get us to understand the real thing
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