यद्वै तन्न मनुते मन्वानो वै तन्न मनुते । न हि मन्तुर्मतेर्विपरिलोपो विद्यतेऽविनाशित्वात् । न तु तद्द्वितीयमस्ति ततोऽन्यद्विभक्तं यन्मन्वीत ॥
yadvai tanna manute manvāno vai tanna manute | na hi manturmaterviparilopo vidyate'vināśitvāt | na tu taddvitīyamasti tato'nyadvibhaktaṃ yanmanvīta ||
When it does not think there, it is in fact thinking even as it does not think. For the thinking of the thinker is never lost, since it is imperishable. But there is then no second thing, other than it and separate from it, that it could think of.
वहाँ जो वह नहीं सोचता, तो वह सोचते हुए भी नहीं सोचता। क्योंकि मनन करने वाले की मनन-शक्ति का कभी लोप नहीं होता, क्योंकि वह अविनाशी है। पर तब उससे अलग, उससे भिन्न कोई दूसरा होता ही नहीं जिसके बारे में वह सोचे।
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
The power to think is not destroyed in deep sleep; it is only that nothing separate is there. Each sense points back to one awareness that does not perish.
गहरी नींद में मनन करने वाले की मनन-शक्ति नष्ट नहीं होती; बस कोई अलग वस्तु वहाँ नहीं होती। हर इंद्रिय उसी एक चेतना की ओर इशारा करती है जो नष्ट नहीं होती।
Brihadaranyaka 4.3.28: one of a series of eight parallel statements on deep sleep. Yajnavalkya explains that in deep sleep the self does not think, not because its thinking is lost, but because there is no second thing to think of.