Bhagavad Gita, Chapter 15, Verse 6

न तद्भासयते सूर्यो न शशाङ्को न पावकः । यद्गत्वा न निवर्तन्ते तद्धाम परमं मम

na tadbhāsayate sūryo na śaśāṅko na pāvakaḥ | yadgatvā na nivartante taddhāma paramaṃ mama

Translation

That, the sun illumines not, nor the moon, nor fire; That is My Supreme Abode, to which having gone none return.

— Alladi Mahadeva Sastri

Word meanings

na

not

tat

that

bhāsayate

illuminates

sūryaḥ

the sun

na

not

śaśāṅkaḥ

the moon

na

not

pāvakaḥ

fire

yat

to which

gatvā

having gone

na

not

nivartante

return

tat

that

dhāma

abode

paramam

highest

mama

my

Śaṅkarācārya's commentary

The sun, though possessed of the power of illumining all, does not illumine that Abode, the Abode of Light. That Abode to which having gone none return, and which the sun and other luminous bodies do not illumine, is the Highest Abode of Viṣṇu.