One Being has become many, so all beings are equal to one Being

[Excerpt from the Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (The Essence of the Highest Reality.]

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Some great soul, Śaṁbhu Bhaṭṭāraka has said . . .

This Yogarāja, the commentator of this Abhinavagupta’s Paramārthasāra, he refers this śloka of Śaṁbhu Bhaṭṭāraka. He was a great soul.

'एको भावः सर्वभावस्वभावः

सर्वे भावा एकभावस्वभावाः ।

एको भावस्तत्त्वतो येन दृष्टः

सर्वे भावास्तत्त्वतस्तेन दृष्टाः ॥'

eko bhāvaḥ sarvabhāvasvabhāvaḥ

sarve bhāvā ekabhāvasvabhāvāḥ /

eko bhāvastattvato yena dṛiṣṭaḥ

sarve bhāvāstattvatastena dṛiṣṭāḥ //

Eko bhāvaḥ, one being, that is Śiva, Lord Śiva, Parabhairava, has become sarva-bhāva-svabhāva, he has become many. Many, right from that insect to śānta kala, he has become so many. Sarve bhāvā eka-bhāva-svabhāvā, and all these are actually, eka-bhāva-svabhāvā, actually, this is only the drama of one–Parabhairava, bas. It is only eka bhāva, [one being]. All are one. One have become many.

Eko bhāvastattvato yena dṛiṣṭa, and that fortunate one who has realized what is eko bhāva, one being–one being–who has realized [this] by the tīvra śaktipāta of Parabhairava, sarve bhāvāḥ tattvatastena dṛiṣṭā, he has realized all beings.

So all beings are equal to one being. One being is equal to all beings. There is no difference between all beings and one being.
Right!

Bhagavadgītāsvapi, in Bhagavad Gītā, Lord Kṛiṣṇa explains this to Arjuna.

'सर्वभूतेषु येनैकं भावमक्षयमीक्षते ।

अविभक्तं विभक्तेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि सात्त्विकम् ॥' (१८।२०)

sarvabhūteṣu yenaikaṁ bhāvamakṣayamīkṣate /

avibhaktaṁ vibhakteṣu tajjñānaṁ viddhi sāttvikam // 18:20

Sāttvic knowledge is that, by which sāttvic knowledge, that fortunate person sees only one bhāva, one state of being, which is undifferentiated in differentiated; which is undifferentiated (who is undifferentiated? –Bhairava, Being, in differentiated world), tat jñānaṁ, that knowledge is sāttvic knowledge, that is the true knowledge.

(source: Abhinavagupta’s Paramarthasara (The Essence of the Highest Reality),
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