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Upanishads · Muktikā 2.73
॥
Devanāgarī
दृशिस्वरूपं गगनोपमं परं सकृद्विभातं त्वजमेकमक्षरम् । अलेपकं सर्वगतं यदद्वयं तदेव चाहं सकलं विमुक्तओं
Transliteration (IAST)
dṛśisvarūpaṃ gaganopamaṃ paraṃ sakṛdvibhātaṃ tvajamekamakṣaram | alepakaṃ sarvagataṃ yadadvayaṃ tadeva cāhaṃ sakalaṃ vimuktaoṃ
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SanskritIASTMeaning
दृशि-स्वरूपंdṛśi-svarūpaṃthe very being of seeing
गगन-उपमं परंgagana-upamaṃ paraṃlike the sky, the highest
सकृत्-विभातं तुsakṛt-vibhātaṃ tushining once and for all
अ-जम् एकम् अ-क्षरम्a-jam ekam a-kṣaramunborn, one, imperishable
अ-लेपकं सर्व-गतंa-lepakaṃ sarva-gataṃunsmearing, all-pervading
यत् अ-द्वयंyat a-dvayaṃwhich is non-dual
तत् एव च अहंtat eva ca ahaṃthat itself am I
सकलं विमुक्तः ओंsakalaṃ vimuktaḥ oṃwhole, liberated; om
Translation
«The very being of seeing, like the sky, the highest, shining once and for all, unborn, one, imperishable, unsmearing, all-pervading, non-dual — that itself am I, whole, liberated. Om».
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Worth noting the word dṛśi-svarūpa, «the very being of seeing». Dṛśi is «sight, that which sees»; and the highest is named not the seen, but the seer. This detail is constant in these books and is, I think, essential: however many qualities are taken away, the one who looks remains.
Add what the Vaishnava side draws from this, cited at Bahvṛcā (9). There the verse of the Ṛgveda ended with the image of «an eye spread across the sky», and it was noted that it must be read as the meeting of a gaze, not as the surveying of an object. Here the same: if the highest is sight, one cannot approach it as a thing; one can only catch its eye.
Add the word alepaka, «unsmearing», literally «not adhering», from lip, «to smear». This root was examined at Varāha (4.25), where Gītā 18.17 said buddhir yasya na lipyate, «whose reason is not smeared». And add: the comparison with the sky, gaganopama, is the very one spoken of at Varāha (3.3): clouds do not wet the sky.
Let the main point be repeated from there: the clouds truly exist, and they truly pour down rain; the comparison asserts not the world's unreality, but the non-attachment of the one behind it.