अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धव्य -
स्तत्त्वभावेन चोभयोः ।
अस्तीत्येवोपलब्धस्य
तत्त्वभावः प्रसीदति ॥ १3
ASTI ITI EVA UPALABDHVYAS
TATVA BHAVEN CHA UBHAYOH|
ASTI ITI EVA UPALABDHASYA
TATVA BHAVAH PRASIDATI ||13
HE SHOULD BE REALISED AS EXISTENT AND THEN HIS TRANSDENTAL NATURE.
WHEN HE IS UNDERSTOOD AS EXISTENET THEN HIS REAL NATURE BECOMES CLEAR||13
This Shloka and the last on is rather difficult one to understand. We have to know the REAL NATURE of the SELF or Brahman. But the ordinary instruments of understanding the external world are useless, but without them we cannot get to it. We have to understand with our MIND and Intellect but theses are not SELF or BRAHMAN and the BRAHMAN is beyond that . So we are told here that we have to first understand the BRAHMAN as EXISTEANCE . We all are aware of our EXISTANCE and that is not mind or intelligence or physical body . Something that we KNOW as ME is nothing other that the SELF . But we mistake the physical body at times as ME. (I have headaches or my leg is hurting or I have heart attack etc. ) Sometimes we refer this ME as Mind ( I am not happy I am angry etc)And sometimes we refer Intellect as ME( I am not as sharp as i used to be . I am getting dementia )
But that is not SELF or BRAHMAN .So once we know that our EXISTANCE is the BRAHMAN, then we have to realize that IT IS TRANSDENTAL . Once we know that HIS real nature becomes clear. In many of the Religious scriptures,we are told about the BRAHMAN as - it s not this and it is not that and not IT IS THIS OR THAT .
