Yastu syarvani bhutani atmanye...

YATSU SARVANIBHUTANI ATMANYE...

                          
यस्तु सर्वाणि भूतान्यात्मनेवानुपश्यति।
Yastu syaarvâni bhûtâni âtmanye-vânupasHyati,

सर्वभूतेषु चात्मानं ततो न विजुगुप्सते ॥6॥

                            Sarva-bhûteSu câtmânam tato na viju-gupsate.(Isha. 6).

  “He who constantly sees everywhere all existence in the Self and the Self in all beings and forms, thereafter feels no hatred for anything.” (Swami Chinmayananda)

This verse explains more vividly than ever in  any other Upanishad about the state of perfect  tranquility gained by a  Self-realized  stage,and,as such, this stanza has been oft-quoted and repeated in books and heard from platforms. This is the benefit accrued to an individual by realising this uniform and all-pervading Reality behind the multiplicity and plurality that we cognise around and about  us. It is certainly worthwhile for all seekers to remember constantly  this verse with  all its implications and import in their mind. Swami Chinmayananda  has advised that " I would suggest that even those who do not know much of Samskrta would some how or other memorise  this stanza,maintaining  an association of the meaning with the sounds,and would keep it as a ready  antidote for all their inner poisons of mental agitations and intellectual  unrest.". How can the multiplicity of life delude the one who sees its unity? 

"Self-realisation  is never  complete by a mere recognition of the intrinsic  divinity or perfection  in  the Self, within which  includes the Self expressing in the pluralistic  world.To realise one's  own Self is  to realise at once its oneness with  the All-Self. To realise  the nature of a wave is  to realise not  only the nature of all waves,but the very nature  of the ocean.Life being one and unbroken, to experience  the Life-centre within us ,is to experience at once the Life-centre everywhere." The one who has  thus  realised the  core of all beings as  the core of in himself , and his own Self as the Self in every name and form,he is a sage, a prophet,a God-man,a true leader of the people,and a guiding power in the universe." (ibid).

In realising thus,,the individual gets permanently  divorced from all his mental ideas of repulsion, shrinking ,dislike,fear,hatred and such  other perversions of feelings, which arise from the  sense of  division and plurality.When all the hatred(jugapsa) has dried away from the mind,the individual  experiences  an unbroken state  of tranquility,thereafter, an all  types of circumstances, favourable or unfavourable, in his worldly existence. Sri  Aurobindo has explained( in his commentary  on Isa Upanisad) this idea vividly: "jugupsa is the feeling of repulsion caused by a sense of of want of harmony,between one'sown limited self-formation, and the contacts of external, with consequent  recoil of grief,fear,hatred, discomfort,and suffering.It  is the opposite  of attraction which  is the source of desire and  attachment.Repulsion and attraction  removed,we have samatava."  A tranquil mind is  as potent as God;the more we gain this inward tranquility(samatva),the more joyous and effective our lives become. 

Vedprakash


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