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Bhagavad Gita · 9.4 · Yoga through the King of Sciences·4 of 34

मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिनामत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः

mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā

mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na chāhaṁ teṣhvavasthitaḥ

Sanskrit recitation

A royal secret, simply held · 9.1–9.10 · Teaching

Translation

All of this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist within Me, but I do not dwell within them.

Meaning

Avyaktamurti is Para Brahman or the Supreme Unmanifested Being invisible to the senses but cognisable through intuition. All beings from Brahma, the Creator, down to the blade of grass or an ant, dwell in the transcendental Para Brahman. They have no independent existence they exist through the Self which is the support for everythin, which underlies them all.Nothing here contains It. As Brahman is the Self of all beings, one may imagine that It dwells in them. But it is not so. How could it be How can the Infinite be contained in a finite object Brahman has no connection or contact with any material object, just as a chair or a table has contact with the ground or a man or a book. So It does not dwell in those beings. That which has no connection or contact with objects or beings cannot be contained anywhere as if in a vessel, trunk, room or receptacle. The Self is not rooted in all these forms. It is not contained by any of these forms just as the ether is not contained in any form though all forms are derived from the ether.All beings appear to be living in Brahman, but this is an illusion. If this illusion vanishes, nothing remains anywhere except Brahman

After Swami Sivananda

A royal secret, simply held· 9.1–9.10

Teachers usually read this idea across several verses together, one shared reflection covers the whole unit.

Word-by-word
na
not
cha
and
aham
I
idam
this
jagat
cosmic manifestation
mayā
by me
tatam
pervaded
sarvam
entire
teṣhu
in them
mat-sthāni
in me
avasthitaḥ
dwell
sarva-bhūtāni
all living beings
avyakta-mūrtinā
the unmanifested form

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