8. The fetters of the heart are broken, all doubts. are resolved, and all works cease to bear fruit, when He is beheld who is both high and low.
9. There the stainless and indivisible Brahman shines in the highest, golden sheath. It is pure; It is the Light of lights; It is That which they know who know the Self.
The sheath referred to here is the buddhi, or intellect. Brahman lies in the buddhi, like a sword encased in a sheath; that is to say, It is most vividly manifest in the buddhi, which is described as golden because it is endowed with reason and knowledge and is therefore superior to the other organs. Brahman manifests Itself, no doubt, through the other sheaths, for instance the physical and the mental; but Its direct expression is through the buddhi, which is subtler than the body, the prana, or the mind. By the intellect alone, when it is devoid of all impurities, Brahman is realized.
10. The sun does not shine there, nor the moon and the stars, nor these lightnings, not to speak of this fire. When He shines, everything shines after Him; by His light everything is lighted.
According to the Upanishadic teachings, as explained by the Nondualists, the entire objective universe is possible only in so far as it is sustained by a Knowing Subject. It is the Consciousness of Atman as Knower which manifests the universe. Even such luminous objects as the sun, the moon, and £.re cannot reveal themselves unless they become manifest by the Consciousness of the Knower. These material objects have no light of their own. Everything shines by the light of Atman, the Subject.
11. That immortal Brahman alone is before, that Brahman is behind, that Brahman is to the right and left. Brahman alone pervades everything above and below; this universe is that Supreme Brahman alone.
Through ignorance one sees, in place of Brahman, the universe of names and forms outside oneself, and in place of .Atman, or Pure Consciousness, the individualized body and mind. This false vision creates the illusion of such pairs of opposites as good and evil, life and death, freedom and bondage, light and darkness. It is the cause of man's grief and suffering. Since the multiplicity of names and forms is the result of ignorance, what he is really seeing outside and inside is Pure Brahman and Atman, which are identical.
~Nikhilananda
8. When He is seen both in the higher and the lower, the knots of seeker’s heart becomes untied; all doubts are dispelled; and all his karmas are consumed.
9. The stainless, indivisible Brahman, the pure, the light of all lights, is in the innermost sheath of the golden hue – the highest. That is what the knowers of the Ᾱtman know.
10. There the sun does not shine, nor the moon, nor the stars; these lightnings also do not shine, how then (can) this earthly fire? Verily everything shines after Him reflecting His glory. This whole world is illumined with His light.
11. Verily, all this is the immortal Brahman. He is everywhere – above, below, in front, at the back, on the right, on the left. This entire world is indeed the supreme Brahman.
~Chinmayananda
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