Chapter 7 · Verse 7

एक एवाद्वयो ब्रह्म नान्यत् किञ्चिदस्ति वै

eka evādvayo brahma nānyat kiñcid asti vai

Only one without division is Brahman, and nothing else exists. In chapter 7 this declaration extends even to the notion of prārabdha-karma. If there is only Brahman, who experiences the residual fruits of past action? The body may follow its tendencies, but the Ātman was never the actor. Non-duality reaches into the last refuge of the ego: the belief that a portion of karma still belongs to “me.”