Verse 13.16

बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च ।

सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ॥

13.16

Transliteration

bahirantaśca bhūtānāmacaraṃ carameva ca |

sūkṣmatvāttadavijñeyaṃ dūrasthaṃ cāntike ca tat ||

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3

Translation

Without and within (all) beings the unmoving and also the moving; because of Its subtlety, unknowable; and near and far away is That.

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Word by word

outside
inside
and
of beings
unmoving
moving
also
and

due to subtlety
that
unknowable
far away
and
near
and
that

By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08

Explanation

More paradoxes follow. Brahman is both outside and within all beings, both the still and the moving. It is so subtle that it cannot be grasped as an object, and it is at once far away and very near. The pairing of far and near echoes language from the Upanishads. To one who looks outward for it, it seems infinitely distant; to one who looks within, it is closer than anything. The verse does not mean that Brahman cannot be realised at all, but that it cannot be known in the way objects are known.