1.2.24
Brahma Sūtra / Adhyāya 1 / 1.2.24
रूपोपन्यासाच् च
rūpopanyāsāc ca
The line
And because a form is set forth, the invisible one is Brahman (ब्रह्मन्).
नेपालीमा
र रूप राखिएकाले अदृश्य ब्रह्म हो।
Where it sits
The akṣara (अक्षर) of 1.2.22 is still the subject. The form is later in the same Muṇḍaka (मुण्डक) chapter, the person born of no womb. This closes that passage.
Split: rūpa-upanyāsāt (रूप-उपन्यासात्) + ca (च)
Sanskrit, in depth
The words
| Word | Grammar | Sense |
|---|---|---|
| rūpa-upanyāsāt (रूप-उपन्यासात्) | ablative singular, masculine | because a form is set forth |
| ca (च) | indeclinable | and |
The phrases
upanyāsa (उपन्यास) is a setting forth. rūpa (रूप) is a form. The Muṇḍaka (मुण्डक) goes on to the divine person, without body, present within and without, unborn, from whom breath, mind, and the elements come, like sparks from a fire, like a spider putting out the thread.
That presented form is a person who is the source, not a shape of the pradhāna (प्रधान) and not the outline of one soul. ca adds this to the exclusion of the two others.
Sanskrit in this line
rūpa (रूप) plus upanyāsa (उपन्यास): a plus u becomes o, rūpopanyāsa (रूपोपन्यास). Before ca, t is heard as c.
Say it back
Say the picture the text uses: sparks from a fire, the thread from the spider. The source is the person, not the pradhāna (प्रधान).