शब्देनैव प्रमाणेन निवृत्तिश्चेदिहोच्यते । अध्यक्षस्याप्रसिद्धत्वाच्छून्यतैव प्रसज्यते ॥
śabdenaiva pramāṇena nivṛttiścedihocyate | adhyakṣasyāprasiddhatvācchūnyataiva prasajyate ||
If it is said here that the negation is by word alone as the means of knowledge, then, since the overseer is not established, only emptiness would follow.
यदि यहाँ कहा जाए कि निषेध केवल शब्द-प्रमाण से होता है, तो अध्यक्ष के सिद्ध न होने से केवल शून्यता ही निकलेगी।
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
If you strip away every label and find nothing, is that emptiness? The worry is natural; the next verses answer it by pointing to the awareness that notices the stripping.
यदि हर पहचान हटाने के बाद कुछ न मिले, तो क्या वह शून्य है? यह चिन्ता स्वाभाविक है; अगले श्लोक उस चेतना की ओर इशारा करके इसका उत्तर देते हैं जो यह हटाना देख रही है।
An objector presses: if the non-Self is negated only by scriptural words, and the overseer (the Self) is not otherwise known, the negation would leave nothing at all, a void.