How the Knower Behaves
तं दुर्दर्शं गूढमनुप्रविष्टं
गुहाहितं गह्वरेष्ठं पुराणम् ।
अध्यात्मयोगाधिगमेन देवं
मत्वा धीरो हर्षशोकौ जहाति ॥ १२॥
taṃ durdarśaṃ gūḍhamanupraviṣṭaṃ
guhāhitaṃ gahvareṣṭhaṃ purāṇam .
adhyātmayogādhigamena devaṃ
matvā dhīro harṣaśokau jahāti .. 12..
The wise man who, by means of concentration on the Self, realises that ancient, effulgent One, who is hard to be seen, unmanifest, hidden and who dwells in the buddhi and rests in the body-he, indeed, leaves joy and sorrow far behind.
Commentary:
“That thing about which you are querying me is impossible of perception. Difficult is the vision of this great Truth. Very deeply hidden is that Truth. In the deepest recesses of one’s own heart can this Truth be recognised. It is in the cave of the heart, or the cave of the cosmos, as you may call it; macrocosmically or microcosmically it is the deepest essence of everything ever outwardly conceived.” Gahvareṣṭham purāṇam: “It is the most ancient repository of all values, earthly as well as celestial. Such a great thing it is, impossible to perceive.” Adhyātma-yogādhigamena devam matvā dhīro harṣa-śokau jahāti: “This impossible-to-perceive Truth has to be known through the yoga known as adhyatma yoga. This great God, the God of all gods, the Real of reals, can be attained by the practice of adhyatma yoga, the yoga of the Self. The unitedness of the self with the Self, the manner in which the lower self of a person gets identified with the higher dimension of itself, the way in which the Atman gets united with Brahman, the manner in which the individual identifies himself with the cosmos, the way in which the subject melts into the object, these are some of the characteristics of adhyatma yoga. Know that great joy through this wonderful yoga known as adhyatma yoga.” This verse is also difficult to understand. “Knowing That, the great hero, the spiritual hero, abandons both the joy and the grief of this world. Neither is he exhilarated at anything he will gain, nor is he depressed by anything he appears to lose.”
Swami Vivekananda Says —
…this truth only becomes effulgent in the heart which has been made pure. He who cannot be seen without the greatest difficulty, He who is hidden, He who has entered the cave of the heart of hearts — the Ancient One — cannot be seen with the external eyes; seeing Him with the eyes of the soul, one gives up both pleasure and pain.[Source]
