The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

Bhashya

Bhashya

‘अवारणीयं तमसः परस्तात्’ इत्यादिना ब्रह्मणो रूपं निर्धार्य ‘तदात्मवित्पश्यति ज्ञानयोगात्’ इति ज्ञानयोगेनात्मदर्शनमुक्तम् ।पुनरपि तस्य स्वरूपं दर्शयित्वा योगिनस्तद्रूपं पश्यन्तीत्याह—

In plain words

With the words ‘nothing can shut it out; it stands beyond the darkness’ and what follows, he settled what Brahman is; and with ‘the one who knows that Self sees, by the yoga of knowledge’, he stated that the Self is seen through the yoga of knowledge. Now he shows that nature once more, and says that the yogins see that very form—

Close to the Sanskrit

Having determined the form of Brahman by the passage beginning ‘unobstructable, beyond darkness’, by ‘the knower of that Self sees, from the yoga of knowledge’ the seeing of the Self through the yoga of knowledge was stated. Yet again, having shown its own nature, he says that yogins see that form—