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Bhagavad Gita · 13.28 · Yoga through Distinguishing the Field and the Knower of the Field·28 of 35

समं सर्वेषु भूतेषु तिष्ठन्तं परमेश्वरम्विनश्यत्स्वविनश्यन्तं यः पश्यति स पश्यति

samaṁ sarveṣhu bhūteṣhu tiṣhṭhantaṁ parameśhvaram

vinaśhyatsv avinaśhyantaṁ yaḥ paśhyati sa paśhyati

Sanskrit recitation

Matter, spirit, and freedom · 13.19–13.35 · Teaching

Translation

He who sees the Supreme Lord existing truly in all beings, the imperishable within the perishable, sees indeed.

Meaning

He who beholds the Supreme Lord through the inner eye of wisdom, Him Who is seated in all beings from the Creator down to the unmoving objects and Who is not destroyed even when all beings are destroyed, he is said to have realised the Self.In different kinds of fire, the heat is the same. Gold is the same in different forms of ornaments. The light from many lamps is the same. So also in all living being,s the soul is the same. The soul or the Self is uniform everywhere. The Self is the same in ants, elephants, kings, beggars, saints and rogues.The Self is indestructible all living beings are perishable. It is the Supreme Lord when compared to the body, senses, mind, intellect, the Unmanifested Nature and the individual soul.Birth is the root cause of the BhavaVikaras or the modifications, viz., change, growth, decay and death. The other changes of state manifest themselves after the birth of the body.The Supreme Lord is one and changeless as He is birthless, decayless and deathless. He is the one common consciousness in all beings. He sees rightly who sees the Supreme Lord as now described. He is a Jivanmukta. He has knowledge of the knower of the field or the immortal Self. He is the real seer or a liberated sage.The sage alone sees properly on account of knowledge. The whole world sees erroneously on account of ignorance

After Swami Sivananda

Matter, spirit, and freedom· 13.19–13.35

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
samam
equally
saḥ
they
yaḥ
who
paśhyati
perceive
sarveṣhu
in all
bhūteṣhu
beings
vinaśhyatsu
amongst the perishable
avinaśhyantam
the imperishable
tiṣhṭhan-tam
accompanying
parama-īśhvaram
Supreme Soul

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