Text 35]
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TEXT 35
यथा महान्ति भूतानि भूतेषूच्चाश्चेष्वनु । प्रविष्टान्यप्रविष्टानि तथा तेषु न तेष्वहम् ॥३५॥
yathā mahānti bhūtāni bhūteṣuccāvaceṣv anu praviṣṭāny apraviṣṭāni tathā teṣu na teṣv aham
yathā —as it is;  mahānti —the universal;  bhūtāni —elements;  bhūteṣu uccavaceṣu —in the minute and gigantic;  anu —after;  praviṣṭāni —entered;  apraviṣṭāni —not entered;  tathā —so much so;  teṣu —in them;  na —not;  teṣu —in them;  aham —Myself.
TRANSLATION
O Brahmā, please know that the universal elements enter into the cosmos and at the same time do not enter into the cosmos; similarly, I Myself also exist within everything created, and at the same time I am outside of everything.
PURPORT
The great elements of material creation, namely earth, water, fire, air and ether, etc., all enter into the body of all manifested entities, namely the seas, mountains, aquatics, plants, reptiles, birds, beasts, human beings, demigods and everyone materially manifested, and at the same time such elements are differently situated. In the developed stage of consciousness, the human being can study both physiological and physical science, but the basic principles of such sciences are nothing but the material elements and nothing more. The body of the human being and the body of the mountain, as also the body of the demigods, including Brahmā, are all of the same ingredients, namely earth, water, etc., and at the same time the elements are beyond the body. The elements were created first, and therefore they entered into the bodily construction later on, but in both circumstances they entered the cosmos as well as not entered. Similarly, the Supreme Lord, by His different energies, namely the internal and external, is within everything in the manifested cosmos, and at the same time He is