Chapter 9 · Verse 5 · Raja Vidya Yoga
Bhagavad Gita 9.5
Sanskrit
न च मत्स्थानि भूतानि पश्य मे योगमैश्वरम्। भूतभृन्न च भूतस्थो ममात्मा भूतभावनः।।9.5।।
Transliteration
na cha mat-sthāni bhūtāni paśhya me yogam aiśhwaram bhūta-bhṛin na cha bhūta-stho mamātmā bhūta-bhāvanaḥ
In plain words
You feel held by forces larger than yourself—by illness, by loss, by people who won't change, by circumstances you cannot control—and it terrifies you that you matter so little in the machinery of it all. Krishna says: you are held, completely held, by a presence that knows you and sustains you while asking nothing from you in return. This is not abandonment dressed up as spirituality; it is permission to stop carrying the whole world, because the whole world was never yours to carry.
Word by Word
Krishna reveals the supreme paradox of existence: all beings rest within His being, yet He remains untouched and uncontained by them—like space holding infinite objects without being affected. He sustains all life while dwelling beyond all life, the eternal creator who transcends His own creation.
This teaches us that the Divine is simultaneously intimate and utterly transcendent, present everywhere while bound nowhere—a truth that dissolves our fear of separation and anchors us in the ground of all existence.
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Bhagavad Gita 9.5 — BG 9.5
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