Upanishads · Mahā 6.2
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Devanāgarī
सर्वत्राहमकर्तेति दृढभावनयानया परमामृतनाम्नी सा समतैवावशिष्यते
Transliteration (IAST)
sarvatrāhamakarteti dṛḍhabhāvanayānayā paramāmṛtanāmnī sā samataivāvaśiṣyate
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
सर्वत्र अहम् अकर्ता इतिsarvatra aham akartā iti“everywhere I am no doer”; “nowhere do I act”
दृढ-भावनया अनयाdṛḍha-bhāvanayā anayāby this firm contemplation; through this strong musing
परम-अमृत-नाम्नी साparama-amṛta-nāmnī sāshe who is named the highest immortality; that one whose name is the supreme nectar
समता एव अवशिष्यतेsamatā eva avaśiṣyateevenness alone remains; there remains nothing but equalness
Translation
“By the firm contemplation ‘everywhere I am no doer’ there remains evenness alone, which is named the highest immortality.”
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The verse repeats 4.15 word for word.
Repetition in this book is always significant: it returns to what was said when it wants the reader to pause upon it.
Note the addition sarvatra — “everywhere”. In 4.15 it was simply “I am ever no doer”; here — “everywhere”.
That is, not only in spiritual matters but in the most ordinary.
Samatā — “evenness” — will become the chief word of this chapter's first verses; it will sound three times in a row.
And it is named parama-amṛta — “the highest immortality”. Not bliss, not vision, not power: evenness.
The explanation why was given at 4.15: remove the doer — and there is no one left to keep the account of merit and blame, and all our unevenness comes of that account.