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मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना। मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः।।9.4।।

mayā tatam idaṁ sarvaṁ jagad avyakta-mūrtinā mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni na chāhaṁ teṣhvavasthitaḥ

Sanskrit Chant Recitation
Chapter 9, Verse 4
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Sanskrit to English Translation

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

A Reading - Rantideb

Why: this entire universe is pervaded by Krishna in his unmanifest form, all beings exist in him, but he does not exist in them, describing a specific, paradoxical relationship of pervading without being contained or limited by what he pervades.

In life: someone can be deeply present and supportive in many people's lives without their own identity being defined or limited by any single one of those relationships.

Teaching: aim for that same balance in your important relationships, genuinely present and invested, without your whole sense of self becoming dependent on or confined by any single one of them.

mayāby me
tatampervaded
idamthis
sarvamentire
jagatcosmic manifestation
avyakta-mūrtināthe unmanifested form
mat-sthāniin me
sarva-bhūtāniall living beings
nanot
chaand
ahamI
teṣhuin them
avasthitaḥdwell

Deep Classical Commentary (Bhashya)

Author:
9.4 मया by Me? ततम् pervaded? इदम् this? सर्वम् all? जगत् world? अव्यक्तमूर्तिना by the unmanifested form? मत्स्थानि exist in Me? सर्वभूतानि all beings? न not? च and? अहम् I? तेषु in them? अवस्थितः placed.Commentary 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. When ignorance? the cause of this illusion? disappears? the very idea of the existence of these beings also will vanish.In verses 4 and 5 the Lord uses a paradox or an apparent contradiction All beings dwell in Me and yet do not dwell in Me I do not dwell in them. For a thinker there is no real contradiction at all. Just as space contains all beings and yet is not touched by them? so also Para Brahman contains everything and yet is not touched by them. Even Mulaprakriti? the source or womb of this world? is supported by Brahman. Brahman has no support or root. It rests in Its own pristine glory. (Cf.VII.12?24VIII.22)