THE COLLOQUY OF INDRA AND AGASTYA - I
ऋग्वेद 1.170.1
न नूनमस्ति नो शवः कस्तद वेद यदद्भुतम |
अन्यस्यचित्तमभि संचरेण्यमुताधीतं वि नश्यति ||
indra says - it is not now, nor is it tomorrow; who know that which is supreme and wonderful? it has motion and action in consciousness of another, but when it is approached by thought, it vanishes.
interpretation - indra speaks of that unknowable source of things towards which agastya was impatiently starving. it neither is now nor is hereafter. its being is beyond time and space, and therefore in itself cannot be known by that which is in space and time. it manifests itself by its form and consciousness of that which is not itself, and through those activities it is meant that it should be realized. but if one tries to approach it and study it in itself, it disappears from thought that would seize it and is as if it were not.
ऋग्वेद 1.170.1
न नूनमस्ति नो शवः कस्तद वेद यदद्भुतम |
अन्यस्यचित्तमभि संचरेण्यमुताधीतं वि नश्यति ||
indra says - it is not now, nor is it tomorrow; who know that which is supreme and wonderful? it has motion and action in consciousness of another, but when it is approached by thought, it vanishes.
interpretation - indra speaks of that unknowable source of things towards which agastya was impatiently starving. it neither is now nor is hereafter. its being is beyond time and space, and therefore in itself cannot be known by that which is in space and time. it manifests itself by its form and consciousness of that which is not itself, and through those activities it is meant that it should be realized. but if one tries to approach it and study it in itself, it disappears from thought that would seize it and is as if it were not.
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