Verse 13

अन्यद् एवाहुः संभवाद् अन्यद् आहुर् असंभवात् ।
इति शुश्रुम धीराणां ये नस् तद् विचचक्षिरे ॥ १३ ॥

anyad evāhuḥ saṃbhavād anyad āhur asaṃbhavāt .
iti śuśruma dhīrāṇāṃ ye nas tad vicacakṣire .. 13 ..

Distinct, they say, is (what results) from the manifest and distinct again, they say, is (what results) from the unmanifest. Thus have we heard from the sages who taught us that.

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anyat eva=altogether distinct. āhuḥ=(they say). Sambhavāt=from that which has birth i.e., from meditating on the phenomenal Brahman, supernatural power such as assuming, at will, extreme subtlety is said to result. Similarly, they say that there is a (distinctive) fruit from meditat- ing on the unmanifest,—viz, that, alluded to in pāda 1 of verse 12 and which is known as “absorption into primal cause” to those versed in the Purāṇas. iti=thus. śuśruma dhīrāṇām—i.e., we have heard the saying of the wise. The last pāda means “who explained to us the results of meditating on the manifest and the unmanifest”

Since this is so, it is but right that meditation on both the effect and the cause should be practised together; a further reason being the achievement (through such meditation) of the chief end.

[ 1 ]: This state may be sought on account of the absence of the ordinary excitements of life in it as in sleep.