The works of Ādi Śaṅkarācārya

Sanatsujātīyam

p. 263

p. 263

‘यतो वाचो निवर्तन्ते, अप्राप्य मनसा सह’ इत्यादिश्रुतिविरोधः प्रसज्येतेत्याशङ्क्याह—

In plain words

"That from which words turn back, never reaching it, and the mind turns back with them" — but then wouldn't this collide with scriptural lines like that one? Raising that objection, he says—

Close to the Sanskrit

'From which words turn back, not having reached it, together with the mind' — having anticipated the doubt that contradiction with scriptural passages beginning thus would follow, he says—