Dear Friend,
In order to understand the Yoga Aishvara of Paramathma, lets make a humble attempt....
Sri Keshava says Bhagavad Gita 9.4
maya tatam idam sarvam
jagad avyakta-murtina
the most important term here is "Avyaktha murtina"...lets understand in detail....
what - idam sarvam jagat...this entire Universe
by whom - mayaa tatam...is prevaded by Me
how - avyaktha murtina....lets understand the term avyaktha...
.the term vyaktha indicates identification of individuality...individuality can be considered only when a boundary exists..everything within the boundary, then can be considered as vyaktha or an individual entity....
avyaktha..means that which cannot be distinctly or individually recognised
- how? this is because there is no boundary...
- why? because Parabramha is infinite and anything that is infinite
cannot be defined in a boundary and hence there is no individuality or vyaktha...
now, Paramathma also uses yet another term murtina...murti very roughly indicates
model...as Parabramha is infinite...and as infinity is
boundless, Parabramha, is modelled as infinite boundlessness, or avyaktha murti
to summarize...this entire universe is prevaded by Me who is modelled as the boundless infinity
mat-sthani sarva-bhutani
na caham tesv avasthitah
mat sthani...sthana is location or place....mat sthani means accommodated or placed in Me
sarva bhuthani....every bhutha....
aham na avastithaha teshu...lets understand the term avasthithaha after the next section....
everything is accomadated in Me, but I am not "avastithaha" in them....
now comes the most interesting part...how are we supposed to understand this...
Sri Hrishikesha Himself gives us an example to help us understand this beautiful point in Bhagavad Gita 9.6
yathakasa-sthito nityam
vayuh sarvatra-go mahan
tatha sarvani bhutani
mat-sthanity upadharaya
the most important term here is "Aakasha"...
upadharaya...understand
yatha aakasha...Just like in the Aakasha or Sky,
stitho nityam...is accommodated eternally...nityam indicates this is eternal...
[this answers many other questions related to the other thread regarding Jeevas, but lets not go there now]
mahan vaayuh sarvatra-gah ....that mighty wind which blows everywhere....
tatha sarva bhuthani man sthany....similarly every bhutha is accommodated in me...
lets understand in detail...Sri Vaasudeva, in this example compares
Aakasha to Him
Vaayu to bhutani
points to note:
Aakaasha or sky or space is infinite from our perspective...Aakasha is also without boundary...
standing on top of a high mountain, when we look at the sky, we can infact see the horizon of the earth, which is the boundary of earth, which makes earth a vyaktha or an individual
entity, but we cannot comprehend a boundary on the vast infinite sky..we cannot recognize individuality in sky...sky for us is modelled as avyaktha....we cannot see a boundary....
thus Paramathma uses Aakasha or sky or space as an analogy to Him...
vaayu or air or atmosphere is located in sky or space...Aakasha is prevading everywhere and vaayu is accomadated in Aakasha or sky or space....without space, air or atmosphere cannot exist...similarly in the infinity called Parabramha, everything is accommodated,
just like atmosphere is accommodated in the sky or space
coming back to the term "avastithaha"
"air" needs a space to be accommodated and thus is accommodated in the space
....where as the space itself does not need the air, or anything, to be accommodated...
similarly, all the beings need the all prevading Parabramha to be accommodated...where as Parabramha
is not in need of a place for accommodation in the bhuta ....
now comes the most interesting part...which answers your question....
when we consider the atmosphere, after the exosphere, which is the final layer of atmoshpere
or
the point after which where air does not exist, does the sky or space or Aakasha also cease to exist?....is the entire space or Aakasha filled with air?
the answer is No..."atmosphere does not exist in space"....and this, my dear friend is exactly what Sri Janardhana is saying in Bhagavad Gita 9.5...
na ca mat-sthani bhutani
pasya me yogam aishvaram
na cha...ALSO not
mat sthani bhutani....accommodated in Me....
just like wind is accommodated within the space and also is not accommodated in space
similarly
sarva bhutani are in Paramathma and are not in Paramathma...
lets understand the above mentioned statement...
so, what is the exosphere we are talking about here....
Hiranyagharbha or Bramhaanda or this prakrthi is the region where bhuthas exists
just like air exists till exosphere...beyond prakruthi..its the Avyaktha Akshara Parabramha without bhutani just like space or sky is without air.....
Just as wind is located in sky[within exosphere] and wind does not exist in sky[beyond atmosphere]
similarly bhutani exist in Parabramha[within prakruthi] and bhutani do not exist in Parabramha[beyond prakruthi]
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