Duality Censured
यदेवेह तदमुत्र यदमुत्र तदन्विह ।
मृत्योः स मृत्युमाप्नोति य इह नानेव पश्यति ॥ १०॥
yadeveha tadamutra yadamutra tadanviha .
mṛtyoḥ sa mṛtyumāpnoti ya iha nāneva paśyati .. 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.
Commentary:
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.
Swami Vivekananda Says —
What is here is there too, and what is there is here also. He who sees the manifold goes from death to death.[Source]
He goes from death to death who sees the many here. See that One and be free. How are we to see it?[Source]
This one and only God is the “knownest” of the known. He is the one thing we see everywhere. All know their own Self, all know, “I am”, even animals. All we know is the projection of the Self. Teach this to the children, they can grasp it. Every religion has worshipped the Self, even though unconsciously, because there is nothing else.
This indecent clinging to life as we know it here, is the source of all evil. It causes all this cheating and stealing. It makes money a god and all vices and fears ensue. Value nothing material and do not cling to it. If you cling to nothing, not even life, then there is no fear. “He goes from death to death who sees many in this world.” There can be no physical death for us and no mental death, when we see that all is one. All bodies are mine; so even body is eternal, because the tree, the animal, the sun, the moon, the universe itself is my body; then how can it die? Every mind, every thought is mine, then how can death come? The Self is never born and never dies. When we realise this, all doubts vanish. “I am, I know, I love” — these can never be doubted. There is no hunger, for all that is eaten is eaten by me. If a hair falls out, we do not think we die; so if one body dies, it is but a hair falling.[Source]