Upanishads · Mahā 6.12
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Devanāgarī
समस्तं खल्विदं ब्रह्म सर्वमात्मेदमाततम् अहमन्य इदं चान्यदिति भ्रान्तिं त्यजानघ
Transliteration (IAST)
samastaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma sarvamātmedamātatam ahamanya idaṃ cānyaditi bhrāntiṃ tyajānagha
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SanskritIASTMeaning
समस्तम् खलु इदम् ब्रह्मsamastam khalu idam brahmaall this is truly Brahman; the whole of this is verily Brahman
सर्वम् आत्मा इदम् आततम्sarvam ātmā idam ātatamall this is the outspread Ātman; everything here is the extended Self
अहम् अन्यः इदम् च अन्यत्aham anyaḥ idam ca anyat“I am other, and this is other”; “I am another, and it is another”
इति भ्रान्तिम् त्यज अनघiti bhrāntim tyaja anaghaleave that delusion, O sinless one; cast off the said error, O blameless one
Translation
“All this is truly Brahman; all this is the outspread Ātman; leave the delusion ‘I am other and this is other’, O sinless one.”
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The verse repeats the saying of the Chāndogya already cited at 4.118: sarvaṃ khalv idaṃ brahma.
And it names the delusion outright: aham anyaḥ idaṃ ca anyat — “I am other, and this is other”.
Note the phrase's construction. What is rejected is neither “I am” nor “this is”, but precisely anya — “other, alien”.
This is the very point made at 4.78 and 5.44: what is cancelled is estrangement, not difference.
Between the hand and the body there is difference; there is no estrangement. Between son and father there is difference; there is no estrangement.
Vaiṣṇava Vedānta stands on this, and therefore reads such verses literally, without softening: all is He, and nothing is alien to Him.
The address anagha — “sinless” — repeats 6.1; the chapter is fond of this word.