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Kathopanisad

Chapter 2 Valli 2 Mantra 12

Mantra

e̱ko va̍śī sarva-bhū̱tānta̍rātmā
eka̍ṁ rūpam ba̱hudhā̍ yaḥ karoti |
tam ā̍tmastham ye̱’nupa̍śyanti dhīrā-
ste̱sāṁ su̱khaguṁ śāsva̍taṁ netareṣām ||

ekaḥ = the Supreme Reality is one; vaśī = the ruler or controller; sarva-bhūtāntar-ātmā = the inner Self of all beings; yaḥ = he who; karoti = makes; ekam = one; rūpam = form; bahudhā = manifold; tam ātmastham = Him residing in the individual Self; ye dhīra = those wise persons who; anupaśyanti = perceive, realize; teṣāṁ = to them; sukhaṁ śāśvataṁ = eternal happinss; na itareṣām = not for others [who are non-discriminating].

(That) One (Supreme) Ruler, the soul of all beings, who makes His one form manifold, those wise men, who perceive Him as existing in their own Self, to them belongs Eternal Happiness, and to none else.

by Swami Chinmayananda:

The self-arrogating ego centers viewing out of themselves through the shattering instruments of their mind and intellect, observe everywhere nothing more sacred than an eternal variety of endless plurality. Consequently, they suffer all the pains of life, their own self-created problems of life. The mind and intellect equipment has a prism effect when the undivided beam of the Self’s Light passes through it! The intelligence seemingly encased within the body can reach the outer world of sense objects and cognize them only through the coordinating agent, the mind. But the wise, transcending the limitations of both their mind and intellect, learn to look out through their faculty called intuition. Intuitively viewed, Truth alone is the experience available at all places, and at all times!

The Self is the source of the Light which, at the interception of the mental prism, seemingly disperses Itself into the variegated band of the innumerable names and forms, which constitute the Jagat. The Yogi in his discriminating wisdom, successfully withdraws his mind’s delusory hobnobbing with its own. Ignorance created plurality, and in the moments of his deep meditations, his Awareness comes to be aware of Itself as the Self.

Our Consciousness becoming conscious of Itself, the Pure Consciousness, as the Self, is the moment of Self Realization or Isvara darshan. In order to enjoy this moment of Supreme Bliss and Wisdom, the individual must necessarily be a highly evolved soul (Dhirah). Such cones alone can come to enjoy Eternal Bliss, That, theirs alone is the experience of continued, unbroken and infinite joy is indicated here by the Sruti. She says that only such wise men who have come to realize their Self, are the real men of bliss and not others. The worldly men who are engrossed in external objects and who are not endowed with discrimination are debarred by this statement to have ever a chance of enjoying Infinite Bliss through sense objects.

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