Upanishads · Mahā 6.60
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Devanāgarī
सर्वं चाप्यहमेवेति निश्चयो यो महामते तमादाय विषादाय न भूयो जायते मतिः
Transliteration (IAST)
sarvaṃ cāpyahameveti niścayo yo mahāmate tamādāya viṣādāya na bhūyo jāyate matiḥ
Word-by-word
SanskritIASTMeaning
सर्वम् च अपि अहम् एवsarvam ca api aham eva“and all indeed is I”; “and everything is precisely I”
इतिiti— thus; — just so
निश्चयः यः महा-मतेniścayaḥ yaḥ mahā-matethat conviction, O great of mind; the said resolve, O mighty in reason
तम् आदाय विषादायtam ādāya viṣādāyahaving taken it, toward dejection; having accepted it, toward despondency
न भूयः जायते मतिःna bhūyaḥ jāyate matiḥthought no longer arises; musing no more is born
Translation
“Having taken the conviction ‘and all this is I’, O great of mind, one's thought no longer turns to dejection.”
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The verse gives the fruit of the third conviction, and the fruit is named modestly: one comes no more to viṣāda — “dejection, despondency”.
Note the word. Viṣāda is the very one by which the Bhagavad-gītā's first chapter is titled: “The Dejection of Arjuna”.
So the speech is of a quite definite state: the hands drop, all is meaningless, nothing is wanted.
The remedy for it — “all this is I”.
Reasonable, if one thinks it through. Dejection is a feeling of estrangement: the world goes past and without me. The conviction that all this is I removes not the task but precisely the estrangement.
The Vaiṣṇava medicine for the same is different in word and identical in effect: all this is His, and I am His. There too there is no estrangement.