A question

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Sri Sita Rama Parabrahmane namah

JAI HANUMAN!

 

Respected Bhagavatas,

Please accept my namaskarams. I've

a question regarding Lord Narayana's aspect as the antharyami

(indwelling controller) of cit and acit. The Brhad aranyaka(Br. Up.) and

Subala upanishads says "yah prithvian tishtha privithviyah antaroyam

...., yah tamasi tishtah yah tamasi antaroyam.." etc.In similar lines the

Br.Up proceeds to say "yah atmani tishtah yah atmani antaroyam". This

verse means that the Lord is situated within the jivAtman , he is

different from the jivAtman and jivAtman is his SarIra.(In another

recension of the same upanishad, the word vijnana is used instead of

Atma and Sripada Ramanuja expalins that vijnana here means jivAtman.In

this verse, how the phrases"yah Atmani tishta" should be

understood?Does the Lord actually reside physically inside the jiva

which is atomic?Because in the case of prithvi ,tejas and other

elements, the Lord is said to pervade them physically by residing in

them.I got this doubt because jivAtman is a spiritual entity complete in

itself and is partless. If the Lord resides inside it physically, does

it not affect the partless nature of the jivAtman? If the Lord does not

reside in inside the atomic jiva physically does it not contradict the

all pervasive nature of Lord Narayana(As the srutis says, antar bahisca

tat sarvam vyApya narayana sthitah).I humbly request the learned

devotees of this forum to clarify this point.

 

Please forgive me if I've typed the Upanishadic verses with mistakes.

 

Trying to be a humble servant,

L.Harikumar