| 5. Nor do those
beings dwell in Me ; behold My Divine Yoga Sustaining all the beings, but
not dwelling in them, is My Self, the cause of beings.And yet these beings,
from Brahma downwards, dwell not in Me ; behold My Divine working, the Divine
Mystery, the real nature of the Self. Accordingly, the sruti speaks of the
unattached condition of the Self, seeing that He is unconnected with any
object: Devoid of attachment, He is never attached Behold, there is yet
another mystery. Though unattached, My Self supports all beings, but does
not dwell in them, as shown above with reasons.Then how to justify the Lords
words, My Self?We answer: Separating (from the Real Self) the aggregate
of the physical and other material environments, and regarding that aggregate
as the Lord speaks of the Self as My Selfso far following only the popular
conception ; not certainly that He believes, as the masses ignorantly believe,
that the Atman, the Self, is distinct from Himself. And further it is Myself
that cause all beings to come into being, that cause all beings to grow.
By way of illustrating by an example what has been taught in the two preceding
verses, the Lord says: |
