न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः | यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम ||१५-६||
na tadbhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ . yadgatvā na nivartante taddhāma paramaṃ mama ||15-6||
Chapter 15 · Verse 6
Purushottama Yoga
पुरुषोत्तमयोग
In plain words
That supreme abode is selfillumined for Brahman is selfluminous. It existed before the sun the moon and the fire came into existence during creation. It remains even after they dissolve into the Unmanifested during the dissolution of the world.
Translation
15.6 That supreme light (i.e. the individual self), reaching which they do not return any more, is Mine; the sun does not illumine It, nor moon, nor the fire.
Meaning
That supreme abode is selfillumined for Brahman is selfluminous. It existed before the sun the moon and the fire came into existence during creation. It remains even after they dissolve into the Unmanifested during the dissolution of the world. This verse is taken from the Kathopanishad The sun does not shine there nor do the moon and the stars nor does this lightning shine and much less this fire. When It shines everything shines after It by Its light all these shine (Chap. II 5.15). The same idea occurs in the Svetasvatara Upanishad (6.14) and the Mundaka Upanishad (II.2.10). The sun the moon etc. derive their light from Para Brahman. Nothing else is needed for illuminating the Supreme Being because It is selfluminous. Dhama paramam Supreme abode or superexcellent seat or Para Brahman. Though the sun is endowed with the power of illumining all it cannot illumine the Supreme Being.यत् धाम वैष्णवं पदं गत्वा प्राप्य न निवर्तन्ते यत् च सूर्यादिभिः न भासयते तत् धाम पदं परमं मम विष्णोः।That abode to which having gone none returns and which the sun moon stars lightning and fire do not illumine is the highest abode of Vishnu.(Cf. VIII.21)
Word by word
न not तत् that भासयते illumines सूर्यः the sun न not शशाङ्कः the moon न not पावकः fire यत् to which गत्वा having gone न not निवर्तन्ते (they) return तत् that धाम Abode परमम् Supreme मम My.