Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret: Verse 4
मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना ।
मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थित: ॥
mayā tatam-idaṃ sarvaṃ
jagad-avyakta-mūrtinā
mat-sthāni sarva-bhūtāni
na cāhaṃ teṣv-avasthita: – 9.4
(Identifying himself with the Supreme, Krishna says:) This entire Universe is permeated by My unmanifest aspect. All beings inhere in Me, but I do not abide in them.
Chapter 9: Rājavidyā-rājaguhya-yoga – Kingly Knowledge, Kingly Secret - Verse 4
Swami Bhoomananda Tirtha
As spirituality deals with our life’s needs and fulfilment, it has to explain the mystery of creation to the seeker’s satisfaction. Thus Krishna explains how the whole world manifests. He says that he, in his unmanifest form pervades the whole world. All beings are hence subsisting on him. But he does not dwell in them.
Can such a state be? Any inference can be adduced only on the grounds of experiential data. Between wakeful and sleep states, we have dream, solely an inner creation. It also has all wakeful factors like time, space, objects and personality. And they are valid, effective and fulfilling too in dream, as the wakeful elements are in their state.
On waking up, dream objects disappear, but not mind, their creator. Likewise, wakeful objects disappear when one sleeps. But the sleeper rises to display waking objects again. Thus objects rest on the mind, but the mind does not rest on objects.
