Upanishads · 1.6
॥
Devanāgarī
यस् तु सर्वाणि भूतान्य् आत्मन्य् एवानुपश्यति ।
सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं ततो न विजुगुप्सते
Transliteration (IAST)
yas tu sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmany evānupaśyati |
sarvabhūteṣu cātmānaṃ tato na vijugupsate
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
यःyaḥhe who; the one who; the man who
तुtubut; truly; in contrast to this
सर्वाणिsarvāṇiall; every kind of; without exception
भूतानिbhūtānibeings; living beings; manifested existences
आत्मनिātmaniin the Ātman; in himself; in the spiritual essence
एवevaprecisely; only; truly
अनुपश्यतिanupaśyatisees in the wake of instruction (anu-√paś — to see following what is taught); contemplates; discerns
सर्वभूतेषुsarvabhūteṣuin all beings; among all beings; in every living creature
चcaand; as well as; at the same time
आत्मानम्ātmānamthe Ātman; himself; the spiritual essence
ततःtataḥthen; therefore; for that reason
नnanot; no longer; never
विजुगुप्सतेvijugupsateturns away in loathing (desiderative of √gup — 'to hide oneself'); abhors; shrinks from
Translation
But he who sees all beings in the Ātman and the Ātman in all beings turns away from no one any more.
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From the contemplation of the One to the way one looks at living beings. yas tu sarvāṇi bhūtāny ātmany evānupaśyati — "he who sees all beings in the Ātman and the Ātman in all beings turns away from no one any more". The verb anu-paśyati literally means "to see after" — after a teacher, after the truth one has heard (that very śuśruma — "we have heard" — of the tenth mantra): this is not a spontaneous flash but a sight trained by a living succession of knowledge.
na vijugupsate — "does not turn away", does not loathe, does not shrink. Contempt, revulsion, enmity are possible only while another is seen as alien — a piece of matter, a rival, a means. But when in every body — from a god to a blade of grass — one recognises a soul of the same spiritual nature, a spark of the same Lord, the very ground of hatred disappears. It is from this, and not from sentiment, that genuine compassion for all beings grows: it is the direct consequence of correct sight.
The Bhagavad-gītā (6.30) gives this mantra its exact counterpart: yo māṁ paśyati sarvatra sarvaṁ ca mayi paśyati / tasyāhaṁ na praṇaśyāmi sa ca me na praṇaśyati — "for him who sees Me everywhere and sees everything in Me, I am never lost, nor is he ever lost to Me". To see all beings in the Ātman means, in the end, never to lose sight of the Lord.