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न तदस्ति विना यत्स्यान्मया भूतं चराचरम् || 39||
yach chāpi sarva-bhūtānāṁ bījaṁ tad aham arjuna
na tad asti vinā yat syān mayā bhūtaṁ charācharam
yat—which; cha—and; api—also; sarva-bhūtānām—of all living beings; bījam—generating seed; tat—that; aham—I; arjuna—Arjun; na—not; tat—that; asti—is; vinā—without; yat—which; syāt—may exist; mayā—me; bhūtam—creature; chara-acharam—moving and nonmoving
Translation:
And that which is the seed of all beings— that am I, Ο Arjuna. There is no being, whether moving or unmoving, that can exist without Me.
Commentary:
Having described His glories, the Lord now declares that He is the source of all beings, and nothing can exist bereft of Him. So all that we see is the Lord Himself. Every being is the manifestation of the Lord, even as the plant is just the manifestation of the seed. One should assert always the Divinity that exists everywhere. He should proclaim the Divinity in himself and in all others. This is the way to progress and realisation. All this is verily the Lord Himself. There cannot be any surer way to lift man from the vile state of weakness that the determined affirmation of his divine origin and his Divine destiny. Let all other thoughts be given up once and for all. Let all beings live in the full consciousness that the Lord is in them, around them, and everywhere.
Sri Ramakrishna Says —
M: “Sir, if it is God Himself who has become everything, then why do people have so many different feelings?”
MASTER: “Undoubtedly God exists in all beings as the All-pervading Spirit, but the manifestations of His Power are different in different beings. In some places there is a manifestation of the power of Knowledge; in others, of the power of ignorance. In some places there is a greater manifestation of power than in others. Don’t you see that among human beings there are cheats and gamblers, to say nothing of men who are like tigers. I think of them as the ‘cheat God’, the ‘tiger God’.” …….
“What is vijnana? It is knowing God in a special way. The awareness and conviction that fire exists in wood is jnana, knowledge. But to cook rice on that fire, eat the rice, and get nourishment from it is vijnana. To know by one’s inner experience that God exists is jnana. But to talk to Him, to enjoy Him as Child, as Friend, as Master, as Beloved, is vijnana. The realisation that God alone has become the universe and all living beings is vijnana.
“According to one school of thought, God cannot be seen. Who sees whom? Is God outside you, that you can see Him? One sees only oneself. Having once entered the ‘black waters’ of the ocean, the ship does not come back and so cannot describe what it experiences.” …..
MASTER: “I don’t go to the Kali temple nowadays. Is that an offence? At one time Narendra used to say, ‘What? He still goes to the Kali temple!'”
M: “Every day you are in a new state of mind. How can you ever offend God?”
MASTER: “Someone said to Sen, about Hriday: ‘He is very ill. Please bring two pieces of cloth and a couple of shirts for him. We will send them to his village.’ Sen offered only two rupees. How do you explain that? He has so much money, and yet he is so miserly! What do you say to that?”
M: “Those who seek God cannot behave that way — I mean those whose goal is the attainment of Knowledge.”
MASTER: “God alone is the Reality and all else is unreal.” (Source: Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna)
Related Articles:
- Know this (Prakriti) to be the womb of all beings; I am the source of the outcoming of the whole universe, and like-wise the source of its dissolution. (BG 7.6)
- Whatever is born— whether animate or inanimate— know, Ο Bhārata prince, that it is through union of the Field and the Knower of the Field. (BG 13.27)
Bhagavad Gita: Chapter 10 
(42 Verses)
