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Shri Sankara's Gita Bhashya
(Sri Sankaracharya's Commentary on the Gita)
CHAPTER -9
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4. By Me, in My unmanifested form, is all this world pervaded. All beings exist in Me; but I do not dwell in them. By Me. by My higher Being, in My unmanifested form, by Me, whose form-nature-is not perceivable, that is to say, not com prehensible to the senses, is all this world pervaded. All beings, from Brahma down to a clump of grass, exist in Me of that un-manifested form. Verily, it is not possible for any object, devoid of a 'self, to become the subject of (for) worldly affair (common experience or any business). Therefore, they exist in Me: they are existing with self-hood, with Me. (as) the Self; and hence they are said to exist in Me. Because I am Myself the Self of all thos beings, it appears to men of deluded intellect as if I dwell in them: wherefore, I declare: but I do not dwell in them, in those beings,- because of the absence of contact, such as is the case with objects having form. I am indeed the innermost being of even the ākāś;: (which is subtle and formless). And, surely, that thing which is unconnected (with anything) cannot be said to rest (or stay) any where, as if it were kept in a receptacle. Wherefore, because of My non-connection (with anything)- |
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