Upanishads · Kaivalya 10
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Devanāgarī
सर्वभूतस्थम् आत्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि संपश्यन् ब्रह्म परमं याति नान्येन हेतुना
Transliteration (IAST)
sarvabhūtastham ātmānaṃ sarvabhūtāni cātmani saṃpaśyan brahma paramaṃ yāti nānyena hetunā
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SanskritIASTMeaning
सर्वभूतस्थम् आत्मानम्sarvabhūtastham ātmānamthe Ātman abiding in all beings; the ātman present in every creature
सर्वभूतानि च आत्मनिsarvabhūtāni ca ātmaniand all beings — in the Ātman; and all creatures — in the ātman
संपश्यन् ब्रह्म परमम् यातिsaṃpaśyan brahma paramam yātibeholding, he goes to the highest Brahman; seeing thus, he reaches the supreme Brahman
न अन्येन हेतुनाna anyena hetunānot by any other cause; by no other means
Translation
He who beholds the Ātman abiding in all beings, and all beings in the Ātman, goes to the highest Brahman — and by no other cause.
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A verse on what the knowing consists in, and it is double: the Ātman in all beings — and all beings in the Ātman.
These are not the same thing, and therefore it is said twice.
The first: in everyone you meet, He is. The second: everyone you meet is in Him.
The first teaches to look deep; the second, to look wide. Either without the other falls short: seeing only the first, a man will seek God in each and lose sight of the whole; seeing only the second, he will dissolve everyone into a generality and cease to distinguish faces.
The Īśā Upaniṣad says the same and adds the conclusion: “he who sees all beings in the Ātman and the Ātman in all beings shrinks from nothing”.
The Gītā repeats it twice and concludes: “he does not lose Me, and I do not lose him”.
Note the verb: saṃpaśyan — “beholding, seeing together”. The prefix sam- denotes conjunction: to see both at once, not by turns.
And the last: nānyena hetunā — “not by any other cause”. The fruit is given neither for rite nor for austerity: it comes of this very seeing.