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THE ANALOGIES IN THE G1TA. l6/
The next simile already alluded to is in chapter ix, 6. As
the mighty wind moving everywhere rests in the AkaSa, know
thou that so do all beings rest in And Lord me." Krishna
states the truth explained by this as the Kingly science, the
Kingly secret, immediately comprehensible and well may he
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say so, as this explains
the true nature of advaita. The verses
4 and 5, have to be stated in full. By me all this world is
pervaded, my form unmanifested. All beings dwell in Me ;
and
I do not dwell in them." "Nor do beings dwell in me, behold
my Divine Yoga Bearing the beings and not ! dwelling in
them is my Self, the cause of beings."
With this we might read
also the similes in xiii, 32 and 33
the all-pervading AkaSa
is, by reaspn of its subtlety, never soiled, so God seated in the
body is not soiled." "As the one Sun illumines all these worlds
so does the Kshetri (not Kshetrajna) illumine all Kshetra," and
the simile in xv. 8. "When the Lord (the jiva, the lord of the
aggregate of the body and the rest Sankara) acquires a body
and when he leaves it, he takes these and goes, as the wind takes
scents from their seats." Here Paramesvara is
compared to
Akasa and the soul, jiva is
compared to the wind ;
and the
relation between God and Soul is the same relation as between
Akasa and wind or things contained in Akaa. And what is
this relation ? Logicians and Siddhantins call this relation as
Vyapaka Vyapti Sambandam, container and contained. WT
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explained in our article on Mind and Body
that this was not
a very apt relation as it has reference to quantity, yet
it is
the best synonym and illustration of the Advaita relation,
not Beda (Madhva), not Abeda, not Bedabeda (Ramanuja),
not Parinama (Vallabha), not Vivarta (Sarikara), but Vyapaka
Vyapti relation. Taking the five elements, and the order of
their evolution and involution, it is seen, how all the four evolve
from and resolve into Akasa. But earth is not water, nor
water earth, water is not fire nor lire water, fire is not air, nor
air fire, none of these is Akasa nor AkaSa any of these.
And Detail solids can be reduced to liquids, and liquids, into
gaseous condition and all disappear
into Akaa, The one