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Bhagavad Gītā 13.16

BG 13.16

बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च।सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत्

bahir antaśh cha bhūtānām acharaṁ charam eva cha sūkṣhmatvāt tad avijñeyaṁ dūra-sthaṁ chāntike cha tat

It is within all beings, yet outside; motionless yet moving; too subtle to be perceived; far away yet ever near.

Translated by Shri Purohit Swami

It is within and without all beings, both the unmoving and the moving; It is subtle and unknowable, and It is near and far away.

Translated by Swami Sivananda

Word meanings (from the gita/gita dataset)

bahiḥ—outside; antaḥ—inside; cha—and; bhūtānām—all living beings; acharam—not moving; charam—moving; eva—indeed; cha—and; sūkṣhmatvāt—due to subtlety; tat—he; avijñeyam—incomprehensible; dūra-stham—very far away; cha—and; antike—very near; cha—also; tat—he

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Cite as: Bhagavad Gītā 13.16, in HREEM (hreem.cc/library/BG/13.16), after https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/gita/gita@main (gita/gita on GitHub, Unlicense).

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