(RV 1.170.1)
na nūnam asti no shvaĥ
kastad veda yad-adbhutam,
anyasya chittam-abhi
sancharņyam-utādhītam vi nashyati .
It is not now, nor is it tomorrow; who knows that which is Supreme
and Wonderful? It has motion and action in the consciousness of
another, but when it is approached by the thought, it vanishes.
The Supreme Reality, the ultimate Source of All, is not contained
in Time. Neither the past, nor the present, nor even the future
can ever exhaust it. Indeed it unrolls itself out of its
infinitude and moves and acts, i.e. manifests, in another
consciousness than its own. It formulates itself in terms of Time
and Space in this creation, conditions that are the very opposite
of its own Eternity and Infinity. It lends itself to be approached
and realized through those forms and movements. But should one try
to know it with the mind, to think it out in its own absoluteness,
It escapes and passes beyond the range of thought.
The Reality can be realized through its manifestation but cannot
be known in itself by the intellect. See also (6.9.2) under
Mystery.
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