Verse 9.5
न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् ।
भूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावनः ॥
Transliteration
na ca matsthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogamaiśvaram |
bhūtabhṛnna ca bhūtastho mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ ||
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · @indic-transliteration/sanscript 1.3.3
Translation
Nor do beings exist in Me (in reality); behold My divine Yoga, supporting all beings, but not dwelling in them, is My Self, the efficient cause of beings.
From the owner's sheet · +1 more
And yet beings do not rest in me: see my sovereign yoga. My self sustains beings and brings them into being, yet does not rest in them.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08 · +1 more
Word by word
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08
Explanation
Krishna immediately qualifies what he has just said: beings do not rest in him either. He invites Arjuna to see his yoga aiśvara, his sovereign power. His self sustains beings and brings them into existence, yet is not located in them. The paradox resists a simple spatial picture. Krishna is neither a container nor something contained. Some traditions read this as saying that the world does not truly touch the highest; others that God sustains the world while remaining untouched by its limitations.
By Sanskrit System · Machine draft · claude-opus-5-5 · 2026-11-08