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Bhagavad Gita 9.4

मया ततमिदं सर्वं जगदव्यक्तमूर्तिना।मत्स्थानि सर्वभूतानि न चाहं तेष्ववस्थितः॥

mayā tatamidaṃ sarvaṃ jagadavyaktamūrtinā |matsthāni sarvabhūtāni na cāhaṃ teṣvavasthitaḥ ||

All of this world is pervaded by Me in My unmanifest aspect; all beings exist within Me, but I do not dwell within them.

Translation by Swami Sivananda · Public domain in India (translator d. 1963)

The whole world is pervaded by Me, yet My form is not visible. All living beings have their being in Me, yet I am not confined by them.

Translation by Shri Purohit Swami · Public domain in India (translator d. 1941)

Our plain-language meaning of this verse is waiting for scholar review.

Edition: Common 700-verse recension. Arjuna's opening question in chapter 13, absent from that recension, is kept as 13.0.

Transliteration in IAST, generated from the Devanagari text.

Source: Sanskrit text via gita/gita (Unlicense), from the Gita Supersite, IIT Kanpur. Sanskrit text public domain.