Shloka 32

कपिल–स्यूमरश्मि संवादः

Kapila and Syūmaraśmi on Renunciation, Householder Support, and Epistemic Authority

Devanagari script

सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्य सर्वभूतानि पश्यत: । देवा5पि मार्गे मुहान्ति अपदस्य पदैषिण:,जो समस्त प्राणियोंका आत्मा हो गया है और सम्पूर्ण भूतोंको अपनेसे अभिन्न देखता है, उसे किसी विशेष स्थानकी प्राप्ति नहीं होती। वह ब्रह्मस्वरूप हो जाता है। उसके पदचिह्नकी खोज करनेवाले देवता भी उस ज्ञानी पुरुषके मार्गके विषयमें मोहित हो जाते हैं --उसकी गतिका पता नहीं पाते हैं

Transliteration

sarvabhūtātmabhūtasya sarvabhūtāni paśyataḥ | devā api mārge muhyanti apadasya padaiṣiṇaḥ ||

Translation

ತೂಲಾಧಾರನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಯಾರು ಸರ್ವಭೂತಗಳ ಆತ್ಮನಾಗಿ, ಎಲ್ಲ ಜೀವಿಗಳನ್ನು ತನ್ನಿಂದ ಅಭಿನ್ನವೆಂದು ನೋಡುವನೋ, ಅವನಿಗೆ ಇನ್ನು ‘ವಿಶೇಷ ಗಮ್ಯ’ ಎಂಬುದು ಉಳಿಯದು। ಅವನು ಬ್ರಹ್ಮಸ್ವರೂಪನಾಗುತ್ತಾನೆ। ಅವನ ಪಾದಚಿಹ್ನೆಗಳನ್ನು ಹುಡುಕುವ ದೇವತೆಗಳೂ ಅವನ ಮಾರ್ಗದ ವಿಷಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಮರುಳಾಗಿ, ಅವನ ಗತಿಯನ್ನು ಅರಿಯಲಾರರು।

Word by Word

सर्वभूतात्मभूतस्यof one who has become the Self of all beings

सर्वभूतानिall beings

पश्यतःof (him) seeing

देवाःthe gods

अपिeven/also

मार्गेin the path/way

मुह्यन्तिare deluded, become bewildered

अपदस्यof the trackless one / of one without a (traceable) footing

पदैषिणःseeking (his) footprints/abode

Speaker

तुलाधार उवाच

Characters & Entities

Tuladāra

Devas (gods)

Brahman

Character Dynamics

Dharma Sankata (Moral Dilemma)

Verse Rasa (Emotional Essence)

Philosophical Teaching

Political Layer

Meter (Chandas)

Sandhi Notes

Educational Q&A

What is the core teaching?

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.

What is happening in the narrative?

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.