The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavadgita : 14-4.

Chapter 14: The Absolute Pervading the Universe-4.

The basic dharma is described in this half-verse of the ninth chapter of the Bhagavadgita, which goes as :-

 maya tatam idam sarvam jagad avyakta-murtina.

The Absolute Almighty pervades every nook and corner of the universe.

Every nook and cranny is permeated by the presence of the Supreme Being.

The consciousness of the presence of the Almighty inseparably in every little thing in the whole of creation is the ultimate constitutional dharma.

It is the central constitution of the cosmos, and all local and provincial laws follow from it.


Political laws, social laws, family laws, personal laws, physical laws, psychological laws, and what not—all these are expressions according to the requirement of the particular state of affairs of that eternal deciding factor which is the presence of one common Being everywhere, equally, unanimously, perpetually in everything.

The presence of God is defined here as an invisible presence, an unmanifested existence—avyakta-murtina.

It is not a gross, visible, sensory presence.

The presence of God is to be conceived in a manner quite different from our idea of the existence of concrete objects, like a brick wall, a pebble or a stone, or the human beings that we see in the world.

Everything that is concrete is capable of isolation from other things that are concrete.

The idea of substantiality or concreteness is associated with duality, disassociation, difference, etc.

Swami Krishnananda
To be continued  ....