26th September 2024
Is the space inside the room where you are sitting, or outside of it? Is the air that you breathe inside of you, or outside of you? The answer is 'It is both!'
Similarly, the Self, experienced as 'I am' by us at all times, is said to be inside as well as outside. Lord Krishna says, "Existing outside and inside all beings; moving as well as non-moving, It is incomprehensible due to subtleness. It is far away, and yet near."
These statements reflect the teachings of the Upanishads. It is far for those who do not know its existence and it is closer than anything else for those who 'know.'
If I ask you to bring 3 cups of water, you will go to the tap and fill up 3 cups. Though divided, the water is the same, perhaps more or less in quantity per the size of each cup. So too, the Self appears to be divided according to the characteristics of the living being through which the Self expresses.
Lord Krishna says, "The Knowable, though undivided, appears to exist as divided in all beings; It is the sustainer of all beings as well as the devourer and originator (when you know It as God)."
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