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The Vision of Śiva5.40

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व्यापका व्यपदिश्यन्ते स्वकार्यव्यापनादथ । यदि ते न स्वयंग्राह्या गृह्यन्ते नैव चक्षुषा ॥४०॥
vyāpakā vyapadiśyante svakāryavyāpanādatha | yadi te na svayaṃgrāhyā gṛhyante naiva cakṣuṣā
— (things are) pervaders ; — are designated ; — from pervading their own effects ; — now ; — if ; — they ; — not self-graspable (graspable by themselves) ; — are grasped ; — not at all ; — by the eye

Things are designated as pervaders from (their) pervading their own effects; now if they are not graspable by their own (conscious) selves, they are not grasped at all by the eye (— the eye reaching only surfaces).