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BHAGAVADGITA.
opposed to the sacred law. It is to be apprehended directly', and is easy to practise. O terror of your foes ! those men who have no faith in this holy doctrine, return to the path of this mortal world, without attaining to me. This whole universe is pervaded by me in an unperceived form. All entities live in me, but I do not live in them. Nor yet do all entities live in me. See my divine power. Supporting all entities and producing all entities, my self lives not in (those) entities. As the great and ubiquitous atmosphere always remains in space, know that similarly all entities live in mes. At the expiration of a Kalpa, O son of Kunti! all entities enter my nature; and at the beginning of a Kalpa, I again bring them forth. Taking the control of my own nature, I bring forth again and again this whole collection of entities, without a will of its own', by the power of nature. But, O Arguna ! these actions do not fetter me, who remain like one unconcerned, and who am unattached to those actions. Nature gives birth to movables and immovables through me, the supervisor, and by reason of that?, O son of Kunti! the universe revolves. Deluded people of vain hopes, vain acts, vain know
'I. e. by immediate consciousness, not mediately; 'not opposed to the sacred law,' i.e. like the Syena sacrifice for destroying a foe.
Because he is untainted by anything. And therefore also the entities do not live in him, as said in the next sentence. See p. 80 supra.
• As space is unlainted and unaffected by the air which reniains in it, so am I by the entities.
• Supra, p. 58. Nature=the unperceived principle. • Cf. p. 80 supra.
. I am not affected by the differences in the conditions of these calities.
* Viz. the supervision.
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