आत्मनश्च परस्यापि यः करोत्यन्तरोदरम् ।
तस्य भिन्नदृशो मृत्युर्विदधे भयमुल्बणम् ॥२६॥

ÄtmanaÅ› ca parasyÄpi
yaḥ karoty antarodaram
tasya bhinna-dṛśo mṛtyur
vidadhe bhayam ulbaṇam

 Ätmanaḥ - of himself; ca - and; parasya - of another; api - also; yaḥ - one who; karoti - discriminates; antarÄ - between; udaram - the body; tasya - of him; bhinna-dṛśaḥ - having a differential outlook; má¹›tyuḥ - as death; vidadhe - I cause; bhayam - fear; ulbaṇam - great.


Text

As the blazing fire of death, I cause great fear to whoever makes the least discrimination between himself and other living entities because of a differential outlook.

Purport

There are bodily differentiations among all varieties of living entities, but a devotee should not distinguish between one living entity and another on such a basis; a devotee’s outlook should be that both the soul and Supersoul are equally present in all varieties of living entities.