Kaivalya Upanishad – Verse 10   «   »

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सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि ।
सम्पश्यन्ब्रह्म परमं याति नान्येन हेतुना ॥ १०॥
sarvabhūtasthamātmānaṃ sarvabhūtāni cātmani .
sampaśyanbrahma paramaṃ yāti nānyena hetunā .. 10..
10. Experiencing one’s own Self in all beings and all beings in the Self, one attains the highest Brahman and not by any other means.

Word Meaning

सर्वभूतस्थम् – staying in all beings; आत्मानं – Self; सर्वभूतानि – all beings; च – and; आत्मनि – in Self; सम्पश्यन् – experiencing; ब्रह्म – Brahman; परमं – Highest; याति – attains (lit. goes); न – not; अन्येन – by other; हेतुना – means
“Seeing the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self”

Through the master practice of Meditation, when the Absolute Self is Realised through perfected discrimination this Self will be seen in and as all beings, and all beings as the Self. This statement is true because as we have been told in verse (9) above “He alone is all that was, and all that will be, the Eternal”. The Absolute Self being all beings then all beings are the One Self.

“one attains that highest Self”

The Sage through his Realisation will have attained higher knowledge of the Non-Dual Absolute. Through this knowledge the Sage gains higher consciousness of the Absolute Self “attains that highest Self”.

“Not by any other means”

This same Truth of the Self cannot be known via the senses or by deduction or from information or by any means other than Self Realisation attained through meditation practices.

The meaning here is that freedom is only attained through Self Realisation. Realisation encompasses the recognition that all “others” are are but the experience of “This” Solitary Consciousness.

Kaivalya Upanishad – Verse 10 – Kaivalya Upanishad 10 – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning, Audio and Commentary – Kaivalya-10