kathopanishad-2-3-7-indriyebhyaḥ

Commentary by Swami Krishnananda of the great Divine Life Society

Indriyebhyaḥ param mano manasas sattvam uttamam, sattvād adhi mahān ātmā, mahato’vyaktam uttamam (2.3.7): There is a repetition, almost, of a verse that occurred earlier. Beyond the sense organs is the mind, beyond the mind is the intellect, beyond the intellect is the great intellect, the cosmic intellect, Hiranyagarbha-tattva, beyond that is the cosmic Prakriti, the Avyakta, and beyond that is the Purusha. That Purusha has no characteristic. Once having known that Supreme Purusha above the cosmic intellect, above the Avyakta Prakriti, above the intellect, mind, sense organs and objects, one immediately attains immortality.