Verse 9.4

मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना ।

मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः ॥

9.4

Transliteration

mayā tatamidaṃ sarvaṃ jagadavyaktamūrtinā |

matsthāni sarvabhūtāni na cāhaṃ teṣvavasthitaḥ ||

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

Translation

All this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist in Me, but I do not dwell in them.

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Word by word

by me
pervaded
this
entire
world
in my unmanifest form

rest in me
all beings
not
and
I
in them
dwell

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

Explanation

Krishna describes his relation to the world in a paradox. The whole universe is pervaded by him in his unmanifest form. All beings rest in him, but he does not rest in them. He is the support of all things without depending on any of them. Traditions read this as the relation of the infinite to the finite, of a ground to what it grounds. The verse prepares for an even sharper paradox in the next verse, which Krishna calls his sovereign yoga.