Shloka 5
Viśvarūpa-darśana (The Vision of the Universal Form) — महायोगेश्वरस्य विश्वरूपदर्शनम्
४ ।। न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्* । भूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावन:
na ca matsthāni bhūtāni paśya me yogam aiśvaram | bhūtabhṛn na ca bhūtastho mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ ||
แต่ถึงกระนั้น สรรพสัตว์ทั้งหลายก็มิได้สถิตอยู่ในเราโดยแท้—จงดูโยคะอันเป็นไอศวรรย์ของเรา อาตมันของเราเป็นผู้ทรงไว้และบำรุงสรรพสัตว์ ทั้งยังให้กำเนิดพวกเขา แต่ก็มิได้ถูกจำกัดอยู่ในสรรพสัตว์นั้น
अजुन उवाच
Educational Q&A
The Lord teaches that His relationship to the world is paradoxical to ordinary thought: He sustains and generates all beings, yet He is not contained or limited by them. This points to divine transcendence alongside immanence—supporting the ethical call to act in dharma without reducing the Divine to a merely worldly object.
In the midst of the Kurukṣetra war setting, Krishna is revealing His supreme nature to Arjuna. After stating that all beings depend on Him, He clarifies that beings are not literally lodged in Him in a spatial sense; rather, by His sovereign power He upholds creation while remaining beyond it, preparing Arjuna for deeper vision of the Divine.