Devanagari
आत्मनश्च परस्यापि य: करोत्यन्तरोदरम् ।
तस्य भिन्नदृशो मृत्युर्विदधे भयमुल्बणम् ॥ २६ ॥
Verse text
ātmanaś ca parasyāpi
yaḥ karoty antarodaram
tasya bhinna-dṛśo mṛtyur
vidadhe bhayam ulbaṇam
Synonyms
ātmanaḥ
—
of himself
;
ca
—
and
;
parasya
—
of another
;
api
—
also
;
yaḥ
—
one who
;
karoti
—
discriminates
;
antarā
—
between
;
udaram
—
the body
;
tasya
—
of him
;
bhinna
—
dṛśaḥ — having a differential outlook
;
mṛtyuḥ
—
as death
;
vidadhe
—
I cause
;
bhayam
—
fear
;
ulbaṇam
—
great .
Translation
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.
Translation (Visvanatha Cakravarti Thakura)
In the form of death, I give great fear to the person who makes distinction between his own belly and the bellies of others.
For the person who differentiates between his own stomach (udaram) and others’ stomachs, I appear in the form of death. One should understand that just as one has a stomach afflicted by hunger, so other people also have stomachs afflicted with hunger. If one does not understand this, he cannot surpass fear of death.
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.