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Chapter 6
Link:—The relationship between a devotee and the Lord, is further elucidated.
sarvabhutasthitam yo main bhajatyekatvamasthital
sarvatha vartamano'pi sa yogi mayi vartate
He, who established in union with Me, worships Me as abiding in all beings, though engaged in all forms of activities, dwells
in Me. 31
Comment:-
Ekatvamasthitals:—In the previous verse, Lord Krsna explained that He is never out of sight of a devotee, nor is he ever out of sight of Him. Why? Because a devotee identifies himself with God, who abides in all beings viz., he develops intense love, for Him.
In accordance with non-dualistic principle, a devotee has no identity of his own, his identity is merged in the Lord, while, in dualistic tenets the Lord and the devotee assume separate entities outwardly, though inwardly they are one and the same[1] just as a husband and a wife possessing two different bodies regard, themselves as one, and so two friends, who deem themselves as one: Due to intense love, duality does not exist. A devotee, who worships God, with wholehearted devotion, gets established in communion with Him. This oneness and the sameness of a devotee and God, is called 'Ekatvamasthitah'.
Sarvabhutasthitam yo mam bhajati:—God pervades everywhere in all persons, things, incidents and circumstances etc., viz., all is God, He puts on the appearance of the entire phenomenon, (7/19)—this is his worship, to God.
Sarvabhutasthitam:—By this phrase, it seems as if God abides only in beings, but actually it is not so, He abides, in each and every particle of the universe. In ornaments made of gold there is nothing, but gold. When ornaments were not made, there was gold, even now gold exists in them and there will remain gold even when the ornaments are broken or spoiled. But, it does not mean that there is gold only in those ornaments, not anywhere else. Similarly, God existed, before the creation of the world, He exists now, and He will exist at the end of the creation. But, to explain the fact that all beings are just like ornaments, and God is like gold, it is said that only God abides, in all beings and He also abides, at all places.
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