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न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः।यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम।।15.6।।

na tad bhāsayate sūryo na śhaśhāṅko na pāvakaḥ yad gatvā na nivartante tad dhāma paramaṁ mama

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 15, Verse 6
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Sanskrit to English Translation

Translator:
Neither does the sun illuminate there, nor the moon, nor the fire; having gone there, they do not return; that is My supreme abode.

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: the sun does not illuminate that place, nor the moon, nor fire, having gone there, one does not return, that is Krishna's supreme abode, using absence of even the sun and moon's light to describe a state beyond ordinary sensory categories altogether.

In life: your deepest sense of meaning or settled understanding doesn't actually depend on any external condition being present or favorable, it operates on a different level than circumstance entirely.

Teaching: notice whether your own sense of deeper settledness currently still depends on favorable external conditions being present, and work toward locating it somewhere that doesn't require those conditions at all.

naneither
tatthat
bhāsayateillumine
sūryaḥthe sun
nanor
śhaśhāṅkaḥthe moon
nanor
pāvakaḥfire
yatwhere
gatvāhaving gone
nanever
nivartantethey return
tatthat
dhāmaabode
paramamsupreme
mamamine

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
15.6 न not? तत् that? भासयते illumines? सूर्यः the sun? न not? शशाङ्कः the moon? न not? पावकः fire? यत् to which? गत्वा having gone? न not? निवर्तन्ते (they) return? तत् that? धाम Abode? परमम् Supreme? मम My.Commentary That supreme abode is selfillumined for Brahman is selfluminous. It existed before the sun? the moon and the fire came into existence during creation. It remains even after they dissolve into the Unmanifested during the dissolution of the world.This verse is taken from the Kathopanishad The sun does not shine there? nor do the moon and the stars? nor does this lightning shine and much less this fire. When It shines? everything shines after It? by Its light? all these shine (Chap.II?5.15). The same idea occurs in the Svetasvatara Upanishad (6.14) and the Mundaka Upanishad (II.2.10). The sun? the moon? etc.? derive their light from Para Brahman. Nothing else is needed for illuminating the Supreme Being because It is selfluminous.Dhama paramam Supreme abode or superexcellent seat or Para Brahman.Though the sun is endowed with the power of illumining all? it cannot illumine the Supreme Being.यत् धाम वैष्णवं पदं गत्वा प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते यत् च सूर्यादिभिः न भासयते तत् धाम पदं परमं मम विष्णोः।That abode? to which having gone? none returns? and which the sun? moon? stars? lightning and fire do not illumine? is the highest abode of Vishnu.(Cf.VIII.21)