Isavasya 10 Translation Fantasia

anyad evahur vidyaya anyad ahur avidyaya

iti shushruma dhiranam ye nas tad vichachakshire.

अन्यत् – different; एव – definitely; आहुः – (they) say; विद्यया – by vidyā; अन्यत् – different; आहुः – (they) say; अविद्यया – by avidyā; इति – thus; शुश्रुम – (we) have heard; धीराणाम् – of the wise; ये – who; नः – to us; तत् – that; विचचक्षिरे – explained

One thing, they say, is verily obtained from vidyā, another thing they say from avidyā; thus we have heard from the wise who explained that to us.

Both vidyā and avidyā, in fact, are bondages. Knowledge is certainly a release from the shackles of ignorance, but knowledge itself is a painful limitation upon the Absolute. One may get over the confusions of ignorance with knowledge but, in itself, this will find us only chained by the limitations of knowledge. To transcend both is to reach the state of absolute Perfection.

~Chinmayananda

Other, verily, it is said, is that which comes by the Knowledge, other that which comes by the Ignorance; this is the lore we have received from the wise who revealed That to our understanding.

By Vidya one may attain to the state of the silent Brahman or the Akshara Purusha regarding the universe without actively participating in it or to His self-absorbed state of Chit in Sat from which the universe proceeds and towards which it returns.

By Avidya one may attain to a sort of fullness of power, joy, world-knowledge, largeness of being, which is that of the Titans or of the Gods;, of Indra, of Prajapati. This is gained in the path of self-enlargement by an ample acceptance of the multiplicity in all its possibilities and a constant enrichment of the individual by all the materials that the universe can pour into him.

~Aurobindo

They say that the result of knowledge is different from the result of ignorance. This, we have heard from the wise, who have explained it to us.

The rishi is talking in humble terms. He does not say, ‘I am saying this.’ He says, ‘This has been explained to me by the wise, from whom we have heard that there are two results.

~Sri M

One thing, they say, is obtained from knowledge; another, they say, from ignorance. Thus we have heard from the wise who have taught us this.

ONE THING: That is to say, the Plane of the Deities. ANOTHER, ETC: The Plane of the Fathers (Pitriloka). THIS: Both rituals and knowledge of the deities. The instruction given in this verse has come down through a succession of teachers.

~Nikhilananda

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