BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:14

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BHAGAVAD-GITA 13:14

 

sarvatah pani-padam tat

sarvato 'ksi-siro-mukham

sarvatah srutimal loke

sarvam avrtya tisthati

 

WORD FOR WORD

 

sarvatah--everywhere; pani--hands; padam--legs; tat--that;

sarvatah--everywhere; aksi--eyes; sirah--heads; mukham--faces;

sarvatah--everywhere; sruti-mat--having ears; loke--in the world;

sarvam--everything; avrtya--covering; tisthati--exists.

 

TRANSLATION

 

Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes, heads and faces, and He

has ears everywhere. In this way the Supersoul exists, pervading

everything.

 

PURPORT

 

As the sun exists diffusing its unlimited rays, so does the Supersoul,

or Supreme Personality of Godhead. He exists in His all-pervading

form, and in Him exist all the individual living entities, beginning

from the first great teacher, Brahma, down to the small ants. There

are unlimited heads, legs, hands and eyes, and unlimited living

entities. All are existing in and on the Supersoul. Therefore the

Supersoul is all-pervading. The individual soul, however, cannot say

that he has his hands, legs and eyes everywhere. That is not possible.

If he thinks that under ignorance he is not conscious that his hands

and legs are diffused all over but when he attains to proper knowledge

he will come to that stage, his thinking is contradictory. This means

that the individual soul, having become conditioned by material

nature, is not supreme. The Supreme is different from the individual

soul. The Supreme Lord can extend His hand without limit; the

individual soul cannot. In Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that if anyone

offers Him a flower, or a fruit, or a little water, He accepts it. If

the Lord is a far distance away, how can He accept things? This is the

omnipotence of the Lord: even though He is situated in His own abode,

far, far away from earth, He can extend His hand to accept what anyone

offers. That is His potency. In the Brahma-samhita (5.37) it is

stated, goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah: although He is always

engaged in pastimes in His transcendental planet, He is all-pervading.

The individual soul cannot claim that he is all-pervading. Therefore

this verse describes the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead, not

the individual soul.

 

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