उपनिषद् · Mahā 6.12
॥
देवनागरी
समस्तं खल्विदं ब्रह्म सर्वमात्मेदमाततम् अहमन्य इदं चान्यदिति भ्रान्तिं त्यजानघ
लिप्यंतरण (IAST)
samastaṃ khalvidaṃ brahma sarvamātmedamātatam ahamanya idaṃ cānyaditi bhrāntiṃ tyajānagha
शब्दशः अर्थ
संस्कृतIASTअर्थ
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
अनुवाद
“All this is truly Brahman; all this is the outspread Ātman; leave the delusion ‘I am other and this is other’, O sinless one.”
संस्करण
27e6b7b55738 · प्रकाशित 29 जुल॰ 2026, 6:29:20 am UTC
उपलब्ध भाषाएँRUENश्लोक बदलें इन कुंजियों से
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.