Kathopanishad- Verse 10 - kathopanishad-2-1-10-yadeveha

Kathopanishad – Part 2 – Canto 1 – Verse 10 « »

यदेवेह तदमुत्र यदमुत्र तदन्विह ।
मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति ॥ १०॥

yadeveha tadamutra yadamutra tadanviha .
mṛtyoḥ sa mṛtyumāpnoti ya iha nāneva paśyati .. 10..

10 What is here, the same is there and what is there, the same is here. He goes from death to death who sees any difference here.

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Sri Shankara’s Commentary (Bhashya) translated by S. Sitarama Sastri

This is said in order that the doubt may not arise in anybody; that what exists in all from the Brahma down to the immovable and appears, being subject to particular conditions, as something other than Brahman and subject to samsâra, he is different from the highest Brahman. What indeed is here subject to conditions of causes and effects and appears to the ignorant as possessing the attributes of sâmsâra, he is indeed the Brahman there centred within the body, in his nature dense with eternal knowledge and devoid of the attributes of all samsâra; again, what there is centred with self is itself here subject to conditions of name, form, cause and effect and is no other. This being so, he who here deluded by ignorance, which consists in seeing difference by the nature of the conditions sees in the Brahman which is one, a variety, thinking thus ‘I am other than the highest Brahman and the highest Brahman is other than I’, goes from death to death, i.e., is again born and dies; so, one should not see thus. The drift of the text is that one should see thus. ‘I am indeed the Brahman, the one unalloyed intelligence, all-pervading, filling all space like the âkâs’.

Commentary by Swami Krishnananda of the great Divine Life Society

Yad eveha tad amutra, yad amutra tad anviha, mṛtyos sa mṛtyum āpnoti ya iha nāneva paśyati (2.1.10). Yad eveha tad amutra: Whatever is here in this individual is also there in the cosmos. Yad amutra tad anviha: Whatever is in this microcosmic individuality of a person is also in the macrocosmic body of God. And conversely, whatever is in the macrocosmic body of the Almighty is to be found in the microcosmic individuality of ours. The human being is a cross-section of the cosmic ranges of worlds after worlds, realms over realms, and all the wonders and glories of the cosmos can be seen scintillating within the particles of the bodily individuality of a person. But if anyone sees duality, multiplicity, and does not realise this great oneness that is operating between us and the Supreme Being, such a person will go from death to death and from birth to birth continuously in a cycling movement of metempsychosis. No one can avoid birth, death and suffering in the form of samsara, this earthly existence, because of the fact that we do not see this unity operating in all things. We do not realise that the wonder that is everywhere is also the wonder within us. “Nachiketas, is this sufficient for you? What do you say?” asks Yama.

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Various resources on the Kathopanishad
Upanishad Series – Katopanishad Commentary by Swami Chinmayananda

Kathopanishad – Verse 10 – kathopanishad-2-1-10-yadeveha – In Sanskrit with English Transliteration, Meaning and Commentary by Adi Shankaracharya (Sankara Bhashya) – Katha-2-1-10