Omnipresence in the Bhagavad Gita
The Gita teaches that Krishna pervades the whole universe in his unmanifest form, and that all beings rest in him.
Verses across the Gita that speak to omnipresence, drawn from all chapters and ordered by where they appear.
- 9.4Ch. 9
The supreme reality holds everything without being held by anything.
You can belong to everything without being trapped inside it.
- 9.5Ch. 9
The supreme reality sustains all beings without being contained by them.
You can be the source of everything without being trapped inside what you sustain.
- 9.6Ch. 9
What moves everywhere still rests in the divine.
You are not separate from the whole. Even movement and change happen within a larger presence.
- 9.7Ch. 9
What seems like ending is only a return before another beginning.
You are held inside a larger order, even when everything seems to end.
- 9.10Ch. 9
Change is not chaotic; it unfolds within a higher order.
You can stop feeling abandoned by change. What shifts is not random; it still rests within a larger order.
- 9.11Ch. 9
Ordinary appearance can hide the highest reality.
Respect can fail when we judge by appearance alone. Seeing more deeply changes everything.
- 9.18Ch. 9
Everything rests in one imperishable source.
You are not alone inside the world; the deepest reality is already holding, seeing, and guiding everything.
- 10.8Ch. 10
Knowing the source turns understanding into devotion.
Knowing where everything comes from makes devotion natural rather than forced.
- 10.42Ch. 10
The whole universe rests in a single fragment of the divine.
The mind can relax. Reality is already held together by something far larger than your grasp.
- 11.40Ch. 11
Total awe ends the illusion of separation.
Awe becomes humility when you realize nothing stands outside the divine presence.
- 13.14Ch. 13
What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.
You can stop feeling cut off from the sacred. Presence is already here, all around and within.