A declaration · expansive in mood · builds on earlier teachings
“What seems separate is already filled with the supreme reality.”
The supreme reality has hands and feet everywhere, eyes, heads, and faces everywhere, and ears everywhere. It pervades all things and stands within all things.
The verse in reading order — each Sanskrit word with its meaning beneath. Hover a word to focus on it.
Read literallyeverywhere · hands and feet · that · everywhere · eyes, heads, and faces · everywhere · having ears · in the world · all · covering · stands, remains
The supreme reality is not limited to one form or place. It is present everywhere, expressed through all beings and all senses.
Krishna speaks this verse, on the battlefield of Kurukshetra, in the chapter titled "Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga" (Field and Knower of the Field).
Verse 14 sits in Chapter 13 of the Bhagavad Gita — Kshetra Kshetrajna Vibhaga, "Field and Knower of the Field". The chapter has 35 verses in total.
You sit alone in a crowded train after a hard conversation, feeling separate from everyone around you. This verse says the deeper reality has never left the room.
Did you like this verse?
It shifts attention from a distant divine object to a presence that already pervades experience.
What this verse means
The supreme reality is not limited to one form or place. It is present everywhere, expressed through all beings and all senses.
Context & commentary
On the battlefield, Arjuna is being taught what the knower of the field is. Krishna now describes the supreme reality as present everywhere, with no outside at all. This verse deepens the vision before the next line explains that it is beyond ordinary senses.
Why this verse still matters
You sit alone in a crowded train after a hard conversation, feeling separate from everyone around you. This verse says the deeper reality has never left the room.
“You can stop feeling cut off from the sacred. Presence is already here, all around and within.”
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