Text 35] Answers by Citing the Lord’s Version 317
TEXT 35
TH wafer yaa WATT |
yatha mahanti bhittani
bhitesiiccdvacesv anu
pravistany apravistani
tatha tesu na tesv aham
yathd—as it is; mahanti—the universal: bhatadni—elements: bhiitesu ucca-
avacesu—in the minute and gigantic: anu—after: pravistani-entered:
apravistdni—not entered: tathad—so much so; tesu—in them: na—not; lesu—
in them: aham— Myself.
TRANSLATION
O Brahma, 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 | 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 Brahmi, 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 there-
fore they entered into the bodily construction later on. but in both cir-
cumstances 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
