ജ്ഞേയം യത്തത്പ്രവക്ഷ്യാമി യജ്ഞാത്വ മൃതമശ്നുതേ അനാദിമത്പരം ബ്രഹ്മ ന സത്തന്നാസദുച്യതേ
jñeyaṃ yattatpravakṣyāmi yajjñātvāmṛtamaśnute anādi matparaṃ brahma na sattannāsaducyate
Malayalam Translation
അറിയപ്പെടേണ്ടതേതോ അതു ഞാന് പറയാം. യാതൊന്നിനെ അറിഞ്ഞാലാണോ മരണമില്ലാത്ത നിലയെ പ്രാപിക്കുന്നത്, അതാണ് അനാദിയും അതിശ്രേഷ്ഠവുമായ ബ്രഹ്മം. അത് സത്ത് (ഉള്ളത്) എന്നോ അസത്ത് (ഇല്ലാത്തത്) എന്നോ പറയുവാന് നിവൃത്തിയില്ല.
Explanation · English
The Lord praises that which ought to be known (Para Brahman) in order to create in Arjuna (or any hearer) an intense desire to know It.Brahman cannot be expressed in words like being or nonbeing? because Brahman does not belong to any class or genus like a Brahmana? cow or horse. It has no ality like whiteness? blackness? etc. It has no relation or connection with anything else? because It is one without a second. It is no object of any sense. It is beyond the reach of the mind and the senses. It is actionless. It is the great transcendental and unmanifested Absolute. It is always the witnessing subject in all objects.The Vedas emphatically declare that Brahman is without attributes? activity? attachment or parts.In chapter IX. 19 it was stated that He is the being and also the nonbeing. It is now stated that He is neither being nor nonbeing. This would seem to the readers to be a contradiction in terms but it is not so. Though the manifest (perishable) and the unmanifest (imperishable) universe are both forms of Brahman? He is beyond both these. (Cf.VII.2XV.16?17and18)