CH 9, Verse 5

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Chapter 9

Verse 5

 

Na cha mat-sthaani bhuutIni pashya me yogam aishvaram

/

bhuuta-bhrin na cha bhuuta-stho mam'aatmaa

bhuuta-bhaavanah //

 

Neither do beings exist in Me. Behold my divine Yoga.

My Self brings beings into existence and sustains

them, and yet I am not dwelling in them.

 

LESSONS FROM BHAGAVAD GITA – 85

As taught by Parama Pujya Sri Swamiji

 

"Neither do beings exist in Me. Behold my divine Yoga.

My Self brings beings into existence and sustains

them, and yet I am not dwelling in them."

 

In the previous verse the Lord said that all beings

dwell in Him. But in this verse He says that no beings

exist in Him. Although it looks somewhat a

contradictory statement, it is not really so.

 

Even though the Lord dwells in the body of a being He

remains unattached to the body. The idea is that He

does not exist in a body like some object contained in

a receptacle. Nor can anything exist in Him because He

is spirit and free from contact with anything. This is

His ‘divine yoga’ or His mysterious power.

 

Thus, although the Lord is the sustainer of beings and

the originator of beings, He is not contained in

beings. But for the Lord the world would have no

existence. But the Lord is self-existent.

 

The Lord uses the expression ‘My Self’ only for the

purpose of an ordinary man’s understanding. He has not

said so considering Himself as different from the

Supreme Self. The Lord is totally egoless.

 

According to Advaita school of philosophy, the whole

world does not exist at all. Paramatma, the Supreme

Lord alone exists. The world is only a superimposition

on Paramatma. For instance, a man in twilight takes a

piece of rope to be a snake by mistake. That means an

unreal snake is superimposed on the real rope. This

wrong notion persists in his mind till he is freed

from his delusion. When the delusion is removed, he

will realize that only rope existed and not the snake.

In the same way man superimposes this whole universe

on Paramatma or the Supreme Self. When the real

knowledge dawns on him, he will realize that only the

Supreme Self exists and nothing else. Thus, from the

pure Advaitic point of view, no beings exist in the

Lord. Only the Lord exists.

 

 

 

 

 

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