तद्वा एतदक्शरं गार्ग्यदृष्टं द्रष्टृ, अश्रुतं श्रोत्तृ, अमतं मन्तृ, अविज्ञातं विज्ञातृ; नान्यदतोऽस्ति द्रष्टृ, नान्यदतोऽस्ति श्रोतृ, नान्यदतोऽस्ति मन्तृ, नान्यदतोऽस्ति विज्ञातृ; एतस्मिन्नु खल्वक्शरे गार्ग्याकाश ओतश्च प्रोतश्चेति ॥ ११ ॥
tadvā etadakśaraṃ gārgyadṛṣṭaṃ draṣṭṛ, aśrutaṃ śrottṛ, amataṃ mantṛ, avijñātaṃ vijñātṛ; nānyadato’sti draṣṭṛ, nānyadato’sti śrotṛ, nānyadato’sti mantṛ, nānyadato’sti vijñātṛ; etasminnu khalvakśare gārgyākāśa otaśca protaśceti || 11 ||
11. This Immutable, O Gārgī, is never seen but is the Witness; It is never heard, but is the Hearer; It is never thought, but is the Thinker; It is never known, but is the Knower. There is no other witness but This, no other hearer but This, no other thinker but This, no other knower but This. By this Immutable, O Gārgī, is the (unmanifested) ether pervaded.
This Immutable, O Gārgī, is never seen by anybody, not being a sense-object, but is Itself the Witness, being vision itself. Likewise It is never heard, not being an object of hearing, but is Itself the Hearer, being hearing itself. So also It is never thought, not being an object of the mind, but is Itself the Thinker, being thought itself. Similarly It is never known, not being an object of the intellect, but is Itself the Knower, being intelligence itself. Further, there is no other witness but This, the Immutable; this Immutable Itself is everywhere the Witness, the subject of vision. Similarly there is no other hearer but This; this Immutable Itself is everywhere the Hearer. There is no other thinker but This; this Immutable Itself is everywhere the Thinker, thinking through all minds. There is no other knower but This; this Immutable Itself—neither the insentient Pradhāna nor anything else—is the Knower, knowing through all intellects. By this Immutable,O Gārgī, is the (unmanifested) ether pervaded. The Brahman which is immediate and direct, which is the self within all and is beyond the relative attributes of hunger etc., and by which the (unmanifested) ether is pervaded, is the extreme limit, the ultimate goal, the Supreme Brahman, the Truth of truth (the elements) beginning with earth and ending with the ether.
Sri Ramakrishna Says —
MASTER: “Those who come here will certainly have all their doubts removed. What do you say?”
M: “That is true, sir.”
A boat was moving in the Ganges, far away from the bank. The boatman began to sing. The sound of his voice floating over the river reached the Master’s ears, and he went into a spiritual mood. The hair on his body stood on end. He said to M., “Just feel my body.” M. was greatly amazed. He thought: “The Upanishads describe Brahman as permeating the universe and the ether. Has that Brahman, as sound, touched the Master’s body?” (Svetasvatara Upanishad 1.13)
After a time Sri Ramakrishna began to converse again.
MASTER: “Those who come here must have been born with good tendencies. Isn’t that true?”
M: “It is true, sir.”
MASTER: “Adhar must have good tendencies.”
M: “That goes without saying.”
MASTER: “A guileless man easily realises God. There are two paths: the path of righteousness and the path of wickedness. One should follow the path of righteousness.”
M: “That is true, sir. If a thread has a single fibre sticking out, it cannot pass through the eye of a needle.”
MASTER: “If a man finds a hair in the food he is chewing, he spits out the entire morsel.”
M: “But you say that the man who has realised God cannot be injured by evil company. A blazing fire burns up even a plantain-tree.” (Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
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MASTER: “I once said to Keshab, ‘How can a typhoid patient be cured if he remains in a room where a pitcher of water and a jar of pickles are kept?’ Now and then one should live in solitude.”…..
(To Ishan) “The Chitsakti, Mahamaya, has become the twenty-four cosmic principles. One day as I was meditating, my mind wandered away to Rashkē’s house. He is a scavenger. I said to my mind, ‘Stay there, you rogue!’ The Divine Mother revealed to me that the men and women in this house were mere masks; inside them was the same Divine Power, Kundalini, that rises up through the six spiritual centres of the body.
“Is the Primal Energy man or woman? Once at Kamarpukur I saw the worship of Kali in the house of the Lahas. They put a sacred thread9 on the image of the Divine Mother. One man asked, ‘Why have they put the sacred thread on the Mother’s person?’ The master of the house said: Brother, I see that you have rightly understood the Mother. But I do not yet know whether the Divine Mother is male or female.‘
“It is said that Mahamaya swallowed Siva. When the six centres in Her Were awakened, Siva came out through Her thigh. Then Siva created the Tantra philosophy.
“Take refuge in the Chitsakti, the Mahamaya.”
ISHAN: “Please bestow your grace on me.” (Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)