Chapter 9, Verse 6
यथाऽऽकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान्। तथा सर्वाणि भूतानि मत्स्थानीत्युपधारय।।9.6।।
yathā'kāśasthito nityaṃ vāyuḥ sarvatrago mahān. tathā sarvāṇi bhūtāni matsthānītyupadhāraya.9.6.
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- yathā
- just as
- ākāśa-sthitaḥ
- situated in / abiding in space (the ether)
- nityam
- always, eternally
- vāyuḥ
- the wind
- sarvatra-gaḥ
- going everywhere, all-pervading
- mahān
- great, mighty
- tathā
- in the same way, similarly
- sarvāṇi
- all
- bhūtāni
- beings, creatures
- mat-sthāni
- situated in Me
- iti
- thus (quotation marker)
- upadhāraya
- know, understand (imperative)
Commentary
6. As the mighty wind moving everywhere rests ever in the akasa, so, know thou, do all beings, rest in Me.
Source: Alladi Mahadeva Sastri, The Bhagavad-Gita with the Commentary of Sri Shankaracharya (1897), public domain
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yathā
ākāśa-sthitaḥ
nityam
vāyuḥ
sarvatra-gaḥ
mahān
tathā
sarvāṇi
bhūtāni
mat-sthāni
iti
upadhāraya
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