Bhagavad Gita 18.21
पृथक्त्वेन तु यज्ज्ञानं नानाभावान्पृथग्विधान् । वेत्ति सर्वेषु भूतेषु तज्ज्ञानं विद्धि राजसम् ॥
pṛthaktvena tu yaj jñānaṃ nānā-bhāvān pṛthag-vidhān / vetti sarveṣu bhūteṣu taj jñānaṃ viddhi rājasam
Translation
But that knowledge which sees in all beings only manifold separate beings of various sorts, know that knowledge to be of the passionate kind.
Reflection
Where does your knowledge stop at the differences and miss what runs beneath them?
Read this verse in its chapter: Chapter Eighteen
Rajasika jnana. The eye is not blind; it sees clearly the variety of beings, the many sorts, the divisions of caste and species and tribe. What it lacks is the deeper register. It stops at multiplicity. Each being is its own island. There is no through-line, no shared substrate. This kind of knowledge powers great competence, great taxonomy, great hierarchy, and great competition. It is the operating system of most ambitious minds. But it cannot reach equanimity, because equanimity requires the seeing of the one in the many. The Gita does not call it wrong; it calls it middle. The next register lies underneath it, unseen.