स्पष्टत्वं कर्मकर्त्रादेः सिद्धता यदि कल्प्यते । स्पष्टतास्पष्टते स्यातामन्यस्यैव न चात्मनः ॥
spaṣṭatvaṃ karmakartrādeḥ siddhatā yadi kalpyate | spaṣṭatāspaṣṭate syātāmanyasyaiva na cātmanaḥ ||
If 'being established' is taken to mean the clearness of agent, object and the rest, then clearness and unclearness would belong only to something else [the intellect and its contents], and not to the Self.
यदि 'सिद्ध होना' का अर्थ कर्ता, कर्म आदि का स्पष्ट होना माना जाए, तो स्पष्टता और अस्पष्टता किसी अन्य [बुद्धि और उसके विषयों] की ही होगी, आत्मा की नहीं।
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
Thoughts and feelings come into focus and blur again; that is how the mind works. The awareness in which they come and go does not itself become clearer or dimmer.
विचार और भावनाएँ कभी स्पष्ट होती हैं, कभी धुंधली; यही मन का स्वभाव है। जिस चेतना में वे आते-जाते हैं, वह स्वयं न अधिक स्पष्ट होती है न धुंधली।
Shankaracharya continues his argument with the Buddhist idealist about what it means for something to be 'established' (siddhi). If it means becoming clear, he says, only the intellect and its objects become clear or unclear, never the Self.