Verse 2.730

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

प्रत्यग्ब्रह्मावसायित्वाद्भेदानां रज्जुसर्पवत् ।
उदाहारि ततः श्रुत्या ह्ययं श्लोको मनोमये ॥ ७३० ॥

pratyagbrahmāvasāyitvādbhedānāṃ rajjusarpavat |
udāhāri tataḥ śrutyā hyayaṃ śloko manomaye || 730 ||

English translation of verse 2.730:

Since all duality terminates in Brahman-Ātman, like the serpent in the rope, this verse was uttered by śruti in the section dealing with the manomaya-kośa.

Notes:

The śruti passage yato vāco nivartante aprāpya manasā saha, etc., which we have now discussed as occurring at the commencement of the ninth anuvāka also occurs in the fourth anuvāka, which deals with the manomaya-kośa. See verse (303). Since this passage is intended to teach Brahman which is different from the five kośas, how is it, it may be asked, that it has also been used in connection with the manomaya-kośa? Just as the illusory snake, vzhich is superimposed on the rone, does not have a being of its own apart from the rope which is the substratum, even so the five kośas which are illusory have no being of their own apart from Brahman, the substratum, on which they are superimposed. The five kośas stand for duality. Brahman-realization, it has already been shown, has to be attained by resolving progressively the annamava-kośa in the prāṇamaya, the prāṇamaya-kośa in the manomaya, etc. This śruti passage yato vāco nivartante has also been used in connection with the manomaya-kośa with a view to teach that the pañca-kośa, which is not-Self, has no being of its own, and that it does not exist apart from Brahman-Ātman.