Kaivalya Upanishad
With Advaita Commentary
9,902 words
The Kaivalya Upanishad is an advanced philosophy and is in reply to the plea of Ashvalayana, already advanced in both years and practice. Ashvalayana askes for the full understanding and realisation of the truth of his non-dual identity with the Absolute Brahman or God....
Verse 10
10. Seeing the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self, one attains that highest Self. Not by any other means.
"Seeing the Self in all beings, and all beings in the Self"
Through the master practice of Meditation, when the Absolute Self is Realised through perfected discrimination this Self will be seen in and as all beings, and all beings as the Self.
This statement is true because as we have been told in verse (9) above "He alone is all that was, and all that will be, the Eternal". The Absolute Self being all beings then all beings are the One Self.
"one attains that highest Self"
The Sage through his Realisation will have attained higher knowledge of the Non-Dual Absolute. Through this knowledge the Sage gains higher consciousness of the Absolute Self "attains that highest Self".
"Not by any other means"
This same Truth of the Self cannot be known via the senses or by deduction or from information or by any means other than Self Realisation attained through meditation practices.
The meaning here is that freedom is only attained through Self Realisation. Realisation encompasses the recognition that all "others" are are but the experience of "This" Solitary Consciousness.