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वेदैरनेकैरहमेव वेद्यो वेदान्तकृद्वेदविदेव चाहम् ।
न पुण्यपापे मम नास्ति नाशो न जन्म देहेन्द्रियबुद्धिरस्ति ॥ २२॥
vedairanekairahameva vedyo vedāntakṛdvedavideva cāham .
na puṇyapāpe mama nāsti nāśo na janma dehendriyabuddhirasti .. 22..
22. I alone am the theme taught in the different Vedas, I am the revealer of the Upaniṣads, the Vedānta and I alone am the real knower of the Vedas. For Me there is neither merit nor demerit. I suffer no destruction. I have neither birth nor body, nor sense organs, nor the mind-intellect equipment.

Word Meaning

वेदैः – by Vedas; अनेकैः – different; अहम् – I; एव – alone; वेद्यः – to be known; वेदान्तकृद् – revealer of the Upaniṣads; वेदविद् – knower of the Veda; एव – alone; च – and; अहम् – I; न – not; पुण्यपापे – merit and demerit; मम – my; न – not; अस्ति – is; नाशः – destruction; न – not; जन्म देहेन्द्रियबुद्धिः – idea of birth, body and senses; अस्ति – is
“I alone am taught in the various Vedas”.

The Vedas symbolise knowledge itself which is the Absolute itself Alone.

“I am the revealer of the Vedanta or Upanishads, and I am also the Knower of the Vedas”.

The Absolute is Existence as Knowledge. Knowledge lights and reveals the “Vedanta or Upanishads” and literally all things.

“For me there is neither merit nor demerit”.

As the Absolute is the One supreme controller or Will then the Absolute can suffer no labels of division.

“I suffer no destruction, I have no birth, nor any self-identity with the body and the organs”.

The Absolute is without origination therefore is immutable and immortal and is beyond destruction. Without origination it is without birth and being formless it encompasses all things and is identified with none.

There is nothing that is not “I”. Further to this, but also the significance of this, Reality itself is a creation of “I”

Kaivalya Upanishad – Verse 22 – Kaivalya Upanishad 22 – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning, Audio and Commentary – Kaivalya-22