Sanskrit
सर्वभूतस्थमात्मानं सर्वभूतानि चात्मनि । ईक्षते योगयुक्तात्मा सर्वत्र समदर्शनः ॥
sarvabhūtasthamātmānaṃ sarvabhūtāni cātmani īkṣate yogayuktātmā sarvatra samadarśanaḥ
Translation
The self, harmonised by yoga, seeth the Self abiding in all beings, all beings in the Self; everywhere he seeth the same.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
This is the vision the whole meditation sequence has been building toward: the self perceiving itself in all beings and all beings in itself, a reciprocal identity rather than one-directional absorption. Same-seeing (samadarshana) here generalizes verse 9’s equanimity toward different kinds of people into a full metaphysical claim about all beings whatsoever.
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