The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣadbhāṣyam

Verse 128

चक्षुर्वै ग्रहः स रूपेणातिग्राहेण गृ-हीतश्चक्षुषा हि रूपाणि पश्यति ॥ ५ ॥

In plain words

The eye is a grasper — seized by form itself, its own over-grasper. Because it is through the eye that we see the shapes of things.

Close to the Sanskrit

The eye, indeed, is a grasper; it is seized by form as the over-grasper; for by the eye one sees forms.