Verse 2.129

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

सत्यं ज्ञानमनन्तं च रसादेः पञ्चकात्परम् ।
स्यामदृश्यादिशास्त्रोक्तमहं ब्रह्मेति निर्भयम् ॥ १२९ ॥

satyaṃ jñānamanantaṃ ca rasādeḥ pañcakātparam |
syāmadṛśyādiśāstroktamahaṃ brahmeti nirbhayam || 129 ||

English translation of verse 2.129:

May I become Brahman which is real, knowledge, and infinite, which is beyond the five sheaths such as annamaya, which is free from fear, and which is spoken of by śruti as “That which is not seen,” etc

Notes:

The human body is constituted by five sheaths (pañcakośa), viz., the sheath made of food (anuamaya), the vital sheath (prāṇamaya), the sheath of consciousness (manomaya), the sheath of self-consciousness (vijñānamaya), and the sheath of bliss (ānandamaya). The sheaths are so called because they veil the Self, hiding it from our view. They are one within the other. As we proceed from the outermost to the inner sheaths, we get nearer the Self. Brahman-Ātman which is real, knowledge, and infinite is inward to the five sheaths. The Bṛhadāraṇyaka (I, iv, 2) says that “it is from a second entity that fear comes." Since Brahman is one and non-dual, it is free from fear (nirbhayam [nirbhayam]). Brahman is not only not designated by words, but as the Muṇḍaka text (I, i, 6) says, it is also “that which is not seen and grasped, that which is without source, features, eyes, and ears, that which has neither hands nor feet...” The wise, however, realize it through higher knowledge.