Wherefore, as I am unconnected with any object,
न च मत्स्यानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम् ।
भूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावनः ॥ ५ ॥
na ca matsyāni bhūtāni paśya me yogamaiśvaram .
bhūtabhṛnna ca bhūtastho mamātmā bhūtabhāvanaḥ .. 5 ..
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And yet these beings, from Brahma downwards, dwell not in Me; behold My Divine working, the Divine Mystery, the real nature of the Self. Accordingly, the sruti speaks of the unattached condition of the Self, seeing that He is unconnected with any object: “Devoid of attachment, He is never attached”—(Brih. Up. 3-9-26.)
Bohold, there is yet another mystery. Though unattached, My Self supports all beings, but does not dwell in them, as shown above with reasons.*—Then how to justify the Lord’s words,‘My Self?’—We answer: Separating (from the Real Self) the aggregate of the physical and other material environments, and regarding that aggregate as the’I’, the Lord speaks of the Self as’My Self,’—so far following only the popular conception; not certainly that He believes, as the masses ignorantly believe, that the Atman, the Self, is distinct from Himself.† And further it is Myself that cause all beings to come into being, that cause all beings to grow.
Because the Self is unconnected with any object.—(A.)
Because such a relation between the Self and the bodily aggregate is illusory. (A)
By way of illustrating by an example what has been taught in the two preceding verses, the Lord says :