Upanishads · Mahā 5.113
॥
Devanāgarī
सर्वं ब्रह्मेति यस्यान्तर्भावना सा हि मुक्तिदा भेददृष्टिरविद्येयं सर्वथा तां विसर्जयेत्
Transliteration (IAST)
sarvaṃ brahmeti yasyāntarbhāvanā sā hi muktidā bhedadṛṣṭiravidyeyaṃ sarvathā tāṃ visarjayet
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SanskritIASTMeaning
सर्वम् ब्रह्म इति यस्य अन्तःsarvam brahma iti yasya antaḥin whom within is “all is Brahman”; he in whom inwardly stands “all is Brahman”
भावना सा हि मुक्ति-दाbhāvanā sā hi mukti-dāthat contemplation gives freedom; the said musing bestows deliverance
भेद-दृष्टिः अविद्या इयम्bheda-dṛṣṭiḥ avidyā iyamthe sight of difference is this ignorance; the vision of division is the said unknowing
सर्वथा ताम् विसर्जयेत्sarvathā tām visarjayetby all means let him discard it; in every way let him dismiss it
Translation
“In whom the contemplation ‘all is Brahman’ stands within — that gives freedom; while the sight of difference is ignorance: let him discard it by all means.”
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The verse sums up the chapter's whole teaching in one formula.
It repeats 4.123 and 5.56: the firm contemplation “all is Brahman” frees.
Bheda-dṛṣṭi — “the sight of difference” — is named ignorance.
Here Vaiṣṇava Vedānta makes its distinction, and it is necessary, or the verse collides both with 5.57, where the three worlds are veins on the stone, and with 5.90, where the selfhood “I am distinct from all” is called good.
What is discarded is not every sight of difference, but bheda as disjunction: the view in which things stand by themselves, outside Him and outside one another.
The veins in the stone are different — and not disjoined. Difference within the one is not bheda-dṛṣṭi in the condemned sense.
This is, to say it in our terms, acintya-bheda-abheda: the difference is genuine, the disjunction is false.