समं पश्यन्हि सर्वत्र समवस्थितमीश्वरम् ।न हिनस्त्यात्मनात्मानं ततो याति परां गतिम् ॥
samaṃ paśyan hi sarvatra samavasthitam īśvaram |na hinasty ātmanātmānaṃ tato yāti parāṃ gatim ||
- समम् पश्यन् · samam paśyan
- seeing the same
- सर्वत्र · sarvatra
- everywhere
- समवस्थितम् · samavasthitam
- steadily abiding
- ईश्वरम् · īśvaram
- the Lord
- न हिनस्ति · na hinasti
- does not harm
- आत्मना आत्मानम् · ātmanā ātmānam
- the self by the self
- पराम् गतिम् · parām gatim
- the supreme goal
“Seeing the Lord abiding the same everywhere, one does not harm the self by the self — and so reaches the supreme goal.”
— Original plain-language translation
IN SHORT Seeing the same worth everywhere stops you from hurting yourself or others.
Right vision becomes self-compassion: to see the same Lord everywhere is to stop wounding oneself. Harm here is the slow violence of misidentification — mistaking the field's decay for the self's doom. It is like a driver who sees the same traffic rules protecting everyone and stops rash moves that harm himself.
— Reader's notes (original)