Upanishads · Chāndogya 2,21.2
॥
Devanāgarī
सः यः एवम् एतत् साम सर्वस्मिन् प्रोतं वेद सर्वम् ह भवति
Transliteration (IAST)
saḥ yaḥ evam etat sāma sarvasmin protaṃ veda sarvam ha bhavati
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
सःsaḥhe; that one
यःyaḥwho; the one who
एवम्evamthus; in this way
एतत्etatthis; all this
सामsāmathe sāman; the chant
सर्वस्मिन्sarvasminin all; in the universe
प्रोतंprotaṃinterwoven; woven in
वेदvedaknows; understands
सर्वम्sarvamall; entirely
हhaindeed; surely
भवतिbhavatirevered lady; madam
Translation
He who thus knows this sāman woven into everything becomes All.
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The briefest of the phala-śrutis, and the most immeasurable: sarvaṁ ha bhavati — "he becomes All": one who knows the song that has stitched everything through becomes everything himself: the borders of "mine" melt where one thread is recognised everywhere.
The logic is exact, not ecstatic: I am cut off from the world only where I fail to hear the common concord; a sāman heard everywhere makes what was another's my own: in everything that burns, rains, grazes and dies, the same fivefoldness sounds as in me (my body is the yajñāyajñīya!). To become All is not to swell up but to recognise kinship: this "all" is a company of fellow-choristers; and a chorister who hears the whole choir embraces it with his hearing — while remaining a single voice.