18.20 Undivided in the divided Krishna speaks
सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमव्ययमीक्षते
अविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्त्विकम्
sarva-bhūteṣhu yenaikaṁ bhāvam avyayam īkṣhate
avibhaktaṁ vibhakteṣhu taj jñānaṁ viddhi sāttvikam
That knowledge by which one sees one imperishable nature in all beings, undivided in the divided, is of clarity.
Explanation
Undivided in the divided.
Knowledge of clarity sees one imperishable nature in all beings — avibhaktam vibhakteṣu.
The exact phrase of 13.16 and the vision of 11.13. The highest kind of knowing, in the book's final classification, is the one that sees sameness without denying difference.
Word by word
- sarva-bhūteṣhu
- within all living beings
- yena
- by which
- ekam
- one
- bhāvam
- nature
- avyayam
- imperishable
- īkṣhate
- one sees
- avibhaktam
- undivided
- vibhakteṣhu
- in diversity
- tat
- that
- jñānam
- knowledge
- viddhi
- understand
- sāttvikam
- in the mode of goodness
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