Word meanings
- sarva-bhūteṣu
- within all living beings
- yena
- by which
- ekam
- one
- bhāvam
- nature
- avyayam
- imperishable
- īkṣate
- one sees
- avibhaktam
- undivided
- vibhakteṣu
- in diversity
- tat
- that
- jñānam
- knowledge
- viddhi
- understand
- sāttvikam
- in the mode of goodness
Translations
That by which one sees the indestructible Reality in all beings, not separate in any of them—know that knowledge to be Sattvic.
That knowledge which sees the One Indestructible in all beings, the One Indivisible in all separate lives, can be truly called Pure Knowledge.
Know that knowledge to originate from sattva, through which one sees a single, undecaying, undivided entity in all the diversified things.
जिस ज्ञानके द्वारा साधक सम्पूर्ण विभक्त प्राणियोंमें विभागरहित एक अविनाशी भाव-(सत्ता-) को देखता है, उस ज्ञानको तुम सात्त्विक समझो।Commentary
That knowledge that sees no difference in all objects that are perceived, is pure. The seer beholds the one allpervading imperishable substance or essence behind the seeming diversity of the objects. He beholds unity in diversity, one in many, all in one. He sees that all the diverse objects are rooted in the One. Bhavam Reality The One Self. Sarvabhuteshu In all beings From the Unmanifested down to the insentient and unmoving objects. Avyayam Indestructible inexhaustible unchangeable that which cannot be exhausted either in itself or in its properties immutable.
Just as the ether is indivisible, so also the Self is indivisible. The Self is the same in all bodies. It is the common consciousness in all bodies. It is not different in different bodies. It is one homogeneous indivisible essence or substance in all bodies, in all beings. Know thou? O Arjuna, this direct and right perception of the nondual Self as Sattvic (pure). (Cf.IV.35VI.29XIII.16-28XVIII.30)