Bhagavad Gita · Jnana Karma Sannyasa YogaChapter 4, Shloka 35 (4.35)
Original Sanskrit · श्रीभगवान्
यज्ज्ञात्वा न पुनर्मोहमेवं यास्यसि पाण्डव
येन भूतान्यशेषेण द्रक्ष्यस्यात्मन्यथो मयि
॥ 4.35 ॥
yajjñātvā na punarmohamevaṃ yāsyasi pāṇḍava
yena bhūtānyaśeṣeṇa drakṣyasyātmanyatho mayi
Translation
"O Pandava! Knowing that, you will not fall into delusion like this again, and by it you will see all beings wholly in yourself, and then in me."
Interpretation
Two results.
- The end of delusion — Shankaracharya: yathā idānīṃ mohaṃ gato 'si punar evaṃ na yāsyasi — as you have now fallen into delusion, you will not fall into it like this again. Ramanuja: dehādy-ātmābhimāna-rūpaṃ tat-kṛtaṃ mamatādy-āspadaṃ ca mohaṃ na yāsyasi — the delusion of taking the body for the self, and the delusion of "mine" born of it — never again.
- Oneness / sameness in all — here there are two readings:
- Shankaracharya: bhūtāni aśeṣeṇa brahmādīni stamba-paryantāni drakṣyasi sākṣāt ātmani pratyag-ātmani "mat-saṃsthāni imāni bhūtāni" iti, atho api mayi vāsudeve parameśvare ca — you will see all beings, from Brahma down to a blade of grass, in your own inmost self, and then in Vasudeva, the Supreme Lord — kṣetrajñeśvaraikatvaṃ sarvopaniṣat-prasiddham — the oneness of the individual soul and Ishvara, well known in all the Upanishads.
- Acharya Ramanuja: sarvāṇi bhūtāni svātmani eva drakṣyasi, yataḥ tava anyeṣāṃ ca bhūtānāṃ prakṛti-viyuktānāṃ jñānaikākāratayā sāmyam — you will see all beings in yourself, because once free from prakriti your self and the selves of all are alike in being of the nature of knowledge (5.19 — nirdoṣaṃ hi samaṃ brahma). And mayi … mat-svarūpa-sāmyāt — in me, because the pure self is like my own nature — the mama sādharmyam āgatāḥ of 14.2, and the paramaṃ sāmyam upaiti of the Mundaka (3.1.3).
AI-assisted draft translation — under review.