Upanishads · Mahā 5.63
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Devanāgarī
द्रष्टारं पश्यतो नित्यमद्रष्टारमपश्यतः विज्ञातव्ये परे तत्त्वे जागरूकस्य जीवतः
Transliteration (IAST)
draṣṭāraṃ paśyato nityamadraṣṭāramapaśyataḥ vijñātavye pare tattve jāgarūkasya jīvataḥ
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SanskritIASTMeaning
द्रष्टारम् पश्यतः नित्यम्draṣṭāram paśyataḥ nityamof one ever seeing the seer; of him who always beholds the looker
अद्रष्टारम् अपश्यतःadraṣṭāram apaśyataḥand not seeing the non-seer; and does not see that which does not look
विज्ञातव्ये परे तत्त्वेvijñātavye pare tattvein the supreme truth that is to be known; in the highest reality that is to be understood
जागरूकस्य जीवतःjāgarūkasya jīvataḥof the wakeful one, the living; of him who is vigilant and alive
Translation
“…of one who ever sees the seer and does not see the non-seer, who is wakeful and lives in the supreme truth that is to be known…”
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The list continues, and in it — the most important of the marks.
Draṣṭāraṃ paśyataḥ — “seeing the seer”. Attention is turned upon the one who looks, not upon what is looked at.
This is the whole turn. All our lives we look outward; to turn the gaze upon the looker is the only change required.
Adraṣṭāram apaśyataḥ — “and not seeing the non-seer”: he does not take for himself that which does not itself see — matter, the body, states.
Note the word jāgarūka — “vigilant, wakeful”. It is of the same root as jāgrat, but denotes not a state but a property: one who is awake as such.
And jīvataḥ — “living”. He is alive, not sunk in torpor. This was spoken of already in 5.7 and 5.50.