अभियुक्तप्रसिद्धिश्चेत्पूर्ववद्दुर्विवेकता । गतिशून्यं न वेदोऽयं प्रमाणं संवदत्युत ॥
abhiyuktaprasiddhiścetpūrvavaddurvivekatā | gatiśūnyaṃ na vedo'yaṃ pramāṇaṃ saṃvadatyuta ||
If [it is] the usage of the learned, discrimination is as hard as before. [Objector:] 'Then is this Veda, with no way [to convey its sense], not a means of knowledge? Or does it agree [with usage after all]?'
यदि विद्वानों की प्रसिद्धि [मानें], तो पहले की तरह विवेक कठिन ही रहता है। [आपत्तिकर्ता:] 'तब क्या यह वेद, अर्थ-गति से रहित होकर, प्रमाण नहीं? या वह [लोक-व्यवहार से] मेल खाता है?'
Meaning today and contextआज के लिए अर्थ और संदर्भ
Even learned habits of speech blur the knower and the known. The way out, as the next verse shows, is an everyday example everyone understands.
विद्वानों की भाषा भी ज्ञाता और ज्ञेय को घुला-मिला देती है। रास्ता, जैसा अगला श्लोक दिखाता है, एक ऐसा रोज़मर्रा का उदाहरण है जिसे सब समझते हैं।
Shankaracharya continues: the usage of learned people is no better, since they too fail to discriminate. The objector asks whether the Veda, then, would have no way to convey its meaning and so fail as a source of knowledge.