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BG 13.28 samam sarvesu bhutesu... cited

Expressions researched:
"Sarvam sarvesu bhutesu" |"samam sarvesu bhutesu" |"tisthantam paramesvaram" |"vinasyatsv avinasyantam" |"yah pasyati sa pasyati"

Bhagavad-gita As It Is

BG Chapters 13 - 18

BG 13.28, Translation and Purport:

One who sees the Supersoul accompanying the individual soul in all bodies, and who understands that neither the soul nor the Supersoul within the destructible body is ever destroyed, actually sees.

Anyone who by good association can see three things combined together—the body, the proprietor of the body, or individual soul, and the friend of the individual soul—is actually in knowledge. Unless one has the association of a real knower of spiritual subjects, one cannot see these three things. Those who do not have such association are ignorant; they simply see the body, and they think that when the body is destroyed everything is finished. But actually it is not so. After the destruction of the body, both the soul and the Supersoul exist, and they go on eternally in many various moving and nonmoving forms. The Sanskrit word parameśvara is sometimes translated as "the individual soul" because the soul is the master of the body and after the destruction of the body he transfers to another form. In that way he is master. But there are others who interpret this parameśvara to be the Supersoul. In either case, both the Supersoul and the individual soul continue. They are not destroyed. One who can see in this way can actually see what is happening.

Conversations and Morning Walks

1974 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- March 30, 1974, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: Yoga means to connect with Kṛṣṇa. Nirbandhe kṛṣṇa-sambandha. That is yoga. (break) ...in touch with Kṛṣṇa, this Hare Kṛṣṇa. Always in touch. Because the Kṛṣṇa's name and Kṛṣṇa is nondifferent. So if you chant Hare Kṛṣṇa, then you are always in Kṛṣṇa, with Kṛṣṇa. Even while walking on the beach, chanting Hare Kṛṣṇa means we are walking with Kṛṣṇa.

Dr. Patel: And we are reading this Bhagavad-gītā. Here, we are chanting.

Prabhupāda: Yes. That is also.

Dr. Patel: Chanting, no?

Prabhupāda: That is also chanting. Yes, yes.

Dr. Patel:

yāvat sañjāyate kiñcit
sattvaṁ sthāvara-jaṅgamam
kṣetra-kṣetrajña-saṁyogāt
tad viddhi bharatarṣabha

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu...

Prabhupāda: The whole world... That is another way explained.

apareyam itas tu (anyāṁ)
viddhi me prakṛtiṁ parā
jīva-bhūtāṁ mahā-bāho
yayedaṁ dhāryate jagat
(BG 7.5)

Why... Why this whole world is going on? Cosmic manifestation? The kṣetra-kṣetra-jña. Because the kṣetra is there, matter, and the spirit soul is there, therefore the whole world is going on. Why the trees, (I) mean, living? Because the kṣetra is there.

Dr. Patel: Kṣetra-jña.

Prabhupāda: Kṣetra-jña, yes. Kṣetra is also there; kṣetra-jña is also there.

Dr. Patel: Kṣetra is the tree and kṣetra-jña is...

Prabhupāda: This body's also. The kṣetra is there, kṣetra-jña is there. Similarly...

Dr. Patel: Samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu...

Prabhupāda: Samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu means the kṣetra-jña is there.

Dr. Patel: Tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram...

Prabhupāda: Yes.

Dr. Patel: Vinaśyatsv avinaśyantaṁ...

Prabhupāda: There is also Paramātmā. It does not mean because he's dog, there is no Paramātmā. There is also Paramātmā. Because Kṛṣṇa says, īśvaraḥ sarva-bhūtānāṁ hṛd-deśe 'rjuna tiṣṭhati (BG 18.61). Kṛṣṇa does not discriminate that "I shall not remain within the body of dog. I shall remain within the body of a brāhmaṇa only." No. Sarva-kṣetreṣu bhārata. This is samatā, that... Because a devotee can understand that Kṛṣṇa is there within the dog, within the cat... Simi...,

vidyā-vinaya-sampanne
brāhmaṇe gavi hastini
śuni caiva śva-pāke ca
paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ
(BG 5.18)

He knows that in everywhere, in every body, there is the Paramātmā. And ātmā also. Then samaḥ sarveṣu bhūteṣu.

Dr. Patel:

samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu
tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram
vinaśyatsv avinaśyantaṁ
yaḥ paśyati sa paśyati
(BG 13.28)

Prabhupāda: Ah.

Dr. Patel:

samaṁ paśyan hi sarvatra
samavasthitam īśvaram
na hinasty ātmanātmānaṁ
tato yāti parāṁ gatim
(BG 13.29)

Prabhupāda: That, that samata, he knows that Paramātmā is everywhere. Aṇḍāntara-stha-paramāṇu-cayāntara-sthaṁ (Bs. 5.35). But that does not mean paramāṇu has become Paramātmā. Daridra has become Nārāyaṇa. This is rascaldom. This is rascaldom. Daridra is daridra. But you know, within the daridra, there is Nārāyaṇa. That is another thing. But that does not mean Nārāyaṇa has become daridra. This is rascaldom.

1975 Conversations and Morning Walks

Morning Walk -- November 13, 1975, Bombay:

Prabhupāda: I think yajanti.

Dr. Patel: Bhajanti. Parasmaipada, not atmānepada.

Prabhupāda: Yes, it is avidhi-pūrvakam.

Dr. Patel: Avidhi-pūrvakam.

Prabhupāda: That is not vidhi.

Dr. Patel: "Those who worship devas, they go to devas, and those who worship Me, they come to Me."

Prabhupāda: Hm?

Dr. Patel: Devāṇī yanti deva-yaja bhūtāni yanti bhūtejya.

Prabhupāda: But these Rāmakrishna men say...

Dr. Patel: Mām eva...

Prabhupāda: Rāmakrishna men say, "You worship any demigod, you go to God." Kṛṣṇa does not say. They say, "There are as many ways." And Kṛṣṇa says, mām ekam. They're all against śāstra. All against śāstra. Hare Kṛṣṇa. Jaya.

Dr. Patel: Did you know this bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram? Na hināsty ātmāna ātmānam tathāpy ātmā... How shall you explain that, sir? Samaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu tiṣṭhantaṁ parameśvaram.

Prabhupāda: Sarvaṁ sarveṣu bhūteṣu (BG 13.28), that I have explained so many times. If you see materially either dog or a big brāhmaṇa, the body is the same material. Body, when you dissect the body you find the same blood, same muscle, same bone. That's all. That is material. And spiritually they are atmān. Therefore sama-darśinaḥ. From that point of view, from basic point of view. Not that he is seeing a brāhmaṇa and dog equal. No. Not that. He is seeing the outward and inward. Inward is spirit. That is one. And outward, matter, that is one.

Dr. Patel: Another is śuni caiva śva-pāke ca paṇḍitāḥ sama-darśinaḥ (BG 5.18).

Prabhupāda: Yes, that is the same thing, because he does not see the form; he sees the ingredients. Just like there are so many earthen pots, dolls. So any sane man knows that these are all made of earth. That's all. That vision is wanted, but these rascals, they are thinking, "I am American," "I am Indian," "I am brāhmaṇa," "I am kṣatriya," "I am fat," "I am this," "I am that." Therefore they are imperfect.

Page Title:BG 13.28 samam sarvesu bhutesu... cited
Compiler:Visnu Murti
Created:05 of Apr, 2011
Totals by Section:BG=1, SB=0, CC=0, OB=0, Lec=0, Con=2, Let=0
No. of Quotes:3