Shloka 42
Adhyaya 37 — Alarka’s Crisis and the Teaching on Non-Attachment (Madālasa’s Instruction Recalled)
यथा घटीकुम्भकमाṇ्डलुस्थम् आकाशमेकं बहुधा हि दृष्टम् ।
तथा सुबाहुः स च काशिपोऽहं मल्ये च देहेषु शरीरभेदैः ॥
yathā ghaṭī-kumbhaka-maṇḍalu-stham ākāśam ekaṃ bahudhā hi dṛṣṭam | tathā subāhuḥ sa ca kāśipo ’haṃ malye ca deheṣu śarīra-bhedaiḥ ||
Just as the one space is seen as many when enclosed in a small pot, a jar, or a water-vessel, so too—through differences of bodies—there is Subāhu, there is Kāśipa, and there am I, and others among the Mallas and other embodied beings.
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FAQs
Apparent differences among persons are conditioned by bodily ‘containers’; recognizing the underlying unity supports non-hatred, empathy, and impartiality.
A metaphysical teaching within the narrative frame; not a pañcalakṣaṇa element.
The pot-space analogy teaches that individuality is an upādhi (limiting adjunct). When the adjunct is ‘seen through,’ the one Self (like space) is understood as indivisible.