सर्वेन्द्रियगुणाभासं सर्वेन्द्रियविवर्जितम्।असक्तं सर्वभृच्चैव निर्गुणं गुणभोक्तृ च॥
sarvendriya-guṇābhāsaṃ sarvendriya-vivarjitamasaktaṃ sarva-bhṛc caiva nirguṇaṃ guṇa-bhoktṛ ca
Word by word
The verse says
It shines through the workings of all the senses, and is without any sense of its own. Unattached, and yet carrying everything; without the three strands, and yet the one for whom they happen.
In plain words
Four contradictions, in two lines, with no attempt to resolve them.
It works through the senses and has none. It is unattached and holds everything up. It is outside the three strands of nature and is the one they occur to.
This is how the chapter talks about what cannot be put on either side of its own line.
Where you've felt this · at work
The person who chairs a difficult meeting well says almost nothing. Every decision in the room has their fingerprints on it and none of the sentences are theirs. Afterwards nobody can point to what they did, and everybody knows the meeting would have gone badly without them.
Going deeper
Holding a contradiction open, rather than choosing a side, is a method here rather than a failure.
Every pair in this verse is of the same shape: involved and uninvolved, present and untouched. A looser text would soften one half of each. This one does not, and the reason is structural. The subject sits outside the categories being used, so any single statement about it will be false in one direction, and the only accurate thing available is two false statements held together.
Chapter 9 did this openly, saying beings rest in him and then that they do not, and then pointing at the contradiction instead of explaining it.
For a reader the instruction is to resist resolving it. The temptation is to pick the half that feels more comfortable — usually the warm one — and a reading that keeps only one half has stopped describing what the verse describes.