Shloka 32
कपिल–स्यूमरश्मि संवादः
Kapila and Syūmaraśmi on Renunciation, Householder Support, and Epistemic Authority
सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य सर्वभूतानि पश्यत: । देवा5पि मार्गे मुहान्ति अपदस्य पदैषिण:
sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya sarvabhūtāni paśyataḥ | devā api mārge muhyanti apadasya padaiṣiṇaḥ ||
Tūladhāra said: “For one who has become the very Self of all beings and who sees all creatures as non-different from himself, there is no longer any ‘special destination’ to be attained. He becomes of the nature of Brahman. Even the gods, though they seek to trace his footsteps, are bewildered about his path—unable to discern the course of his going.”
तुलाधार उवाच
Educational Q&A
When a person realizes the Self as present in all beings and sees no separation, the notion of attaining a particular heavenly or limited goal falls away; such a knower abides as Brahman, beyond traceable worldly trajectories.
In Tulādāra’s instruction, he describes the state of the liberated knower: even the gods, imagined as capable of tracking destinies, cannot comprehend or ‘follow’ the movement of one who has transcended ordinary paths and destinations through Brahman-realization.