A metaphor · expansive in mood · a little context helps
“What moves everywhere still rests in the divine.”
As the great wind, moving everywhere, always rests in space, so all beings rest in Me.
The verse in reading order — each Sanskrit word with its meaning beneath. Tap a word to focus on it.
Read literallyjust as · स्थित in space · always · wind · moving everywhere · great · so · all · beings · resting in Me · thus · understand
All living beings exist within Krishna just as wind moves within space. The verse asks Arjuna to hold this vision of divine presence everywhere.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga" (The Royal Knowledge).
Verse 6 sits in Chapter 9 of the Bhagavad Gita — Raja Vidya Raja Guhya Yoga, "The Royal Knowledge". The chapter has 34 verses in total.
Travelling alone on a night train after a funeral, you can feel cut off from everyone. Krishna's picture of wind moving freely inside the sky says every being, you included, rests in him.
Did you like this verse?
Krishna's image: as the vast wind moves everywhere yet always rests in space, so all beings rest in him.
What this verse means
All living beings exist within Krishna just as wind moves within space. The verse asks Arjuna to hold this vision of divine presence everywhere.
Context & commentary
Krishna has already said that all beings are within his presence; now he gives a vivid image to make that truth feel real: every creature rests in him as wind rests in space.
What it looks like today
Travelling alone on a night train after a funeral, you can feel cut off from everyone. Krishna's picture of wind moving freely inside the sky says every being, you included, rests in him.
“You are not separate from the whole. Even movement and change happen within a larger presence.”
Explore related themes: vibhuti (43 verses), bhagavan (11 verses), omnipresence (11 verses)