Verse 2.580

Sanskrit text and transliteration:

कर्मकर्तृकतैकस्य दोषः स्यादिति चेन्न तत् ।
सङ्क्रान्तेर्ज्ञानमात्रत्वात्तद्धि भेदनिरासि नः ॥ ५८० ॥

karmakartṛkataikasya doṣaḥ syāditi cenna tat |
saṅkrānterjñānamātratvāttaddhi bhedanirāsi naḥ || 580 ||

English translation of verse 2.580:

If it be said that (on the view that the jīva and Brahman are non-different) the defect of one and the same thing being both the agent and the object of action will arise, it is not so, because the word saṅkrānti (here) means mere knowledge (of oneness of the jīva with Brahman). To us, knowledge, indeed, removes difference.

Notes:

The possibility of the defect of one and the same entity being both the agent and the object of action (karma-kartṛtvavirodha) was mentioned in verse (551) in connection with the standpoint of non-duality. The opponent cites the śruti text “He attains this self made of bliss” (etamānandamayamātmānam upasaṅkrāmati) in support of his contention.

This objection will not hold good. The word saṅkrānti spoken of in the śruti text does not mean attainment or reaching, but mere knowledge. The context in which this text occurs is this. He who knows the person in the human being and in the sun as one resolves, as a result of the knowledge he has, the annamaya in the prāṇamaya, the prāṇamaya in the manomaya, the manomaya in the vijñānamaya, the vijñānamaya in the ānandamaya and the ānandamaya in Brahman. See verses (546) to (548) for the explanation of this śruti passage. The idea is that when a person attains the liberating knowledge “I am Brahman”, avidyā and its effects erroneously ascribed to Brahman get removed. So the alleged defect of one and the same thing being the agent and the object of an action does not arise.