A declaration · expansive in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.”
The supreme reality has hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads, and faces everywhere, and ears everywhere. It pervades all things and stands within all things.
The verse in reading order — each Sanskrit word with its meaning beneath. Tap a word to focus on it.
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The supreme reality is not limited to one form or place. It is present everywhere, expressed through all beings and all senses.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga" (Field and Knower of the Field).
Verse 14 sits in Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita — Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga, "Field and Knower of the Field". The chapter has 35 verses in total.
Sitting in a packed train after a hard day, a commuter feels cut off from every face around him. Krishna's picture is of one reality with eyes, hands and faces through every one of them, his own included.
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Hands and feet everywhere, eyes and faces everywhere: Krishna describes Brahman as standing inside every thing.
What this verse means
The supreme reality is not limited to one form or place. It is present everywhere, expressed through all beings and all senses.
Context & commentary
Krishna now describes the supreme reality as present everywhere, with no outside at all. This verse deepens the vision before the next line explains that it is beyond ordinary senses.
What it looks like today
Sitting in a packed train after a hard day, a commuter feels cut off from every face around him. Krishna's picture is of one reality with eyes, hands and faces through every one of them, his own included.
“You can stop feeling cut off from the sacred. Presence is already here, all around and within.”
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