Shloka 15

Devanagari script

पश्यत: सर्वभूतानि सर्वावस्थासु सर्वदा | ब्रह्म भूतस्य संयोगो नाशुभेनोपपद्यते,सब अवस्थाओंमें सदा समस्त भूतोंको आत्मरूपसे देखनेवाले उस ब्रह्मस्वरूप ज्ञानीका कभी भी अशुभ कर्मोंसे सम्पर्क होना सम्भव नहीं है

Transliteration

paśyataḥ sarvabhūtāni sarvāvasthāsu sarvadā | brahma bhūtasya saṃyogo nāśubhenopapadyate ||

Translation

「常に、いかなる境遇にあっても、あらゆる生類を自己として観ずる者—梵に安住する智者—には、不吉なる業との真の交わりは成り立たない。」

Word by Word

पश्यतःof (one) seeing

सर्वभूतानिall beings

सर्वावस्थासुin all conditions/states

सर्वदाalways

ब्रह्मBrahman (the Absolute)

भूतस्यof one who has become (i.e., who is)

संयोगःcontact/association

नnot

अशुभेनwith evil/inauspicious (deed/thing)

उपपद्यतेis possible/occurs/comes about

Speaker

व्याध उवाच

Characters & Entities

व

व्याध (the hunter, speaker)

ब

ब्रह्म (Brahman)

स

सर्वभूतानि (all beings)

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Geographic Context

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

A person established in Brahman, who consistently perceives all beings as the one Self across every circumstance, is not truly tainted by inauspicious action; the non-dual vision prevents moral and karmic contamination from taking hold.

What is happening in the narrative?

In the Vyādha’s instruction on dharma (the hunter’s discourse), he explains to his listener that genuine spiritual realization—seeing the Self in all beings—transforms one’s relation to action, making association with evil or impurity impossible for the Brahman-realized knower.