Everywhere are His hands and legs, Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.13.16]

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Bhagavad-gita As It Is | Part [BG.13.16]

TEXT 14:

sarvatah pani-padam tat
sarvato 'kshi-siro-mukham
sarvatah srutimal loke
sarvam avritya tishthati

TRANSLATION:

Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes, heads and faces, and He
has ears everywhere. In this way the Supersoul exists, pervading
everything.

PURPORT:

As the sun exists diffusing its unlimited rays, so does the Supersoul,
or Supreme Personality of Godhead. He exists in His all-pervading
form, and in Him exist all the individual living entities, beginning
from the first great teacher, Brahma, down to the small ants. There
are unlimited heads, legs, hands and eyes, and unlimited living
entities. All are existing in and on the Supersoul. Therefore the
Supersoul is all-pervading. The individual soul, however, cannot say
that he has his hands, legs and eyes everywhere. That is not possible.
If he thinks that under ignorance he is not conscious that his hands
and legs are diffused all over but when he attains to proper knowledge
he will come to that stage, his thinking is contradictory. This means
that the individual soul, having become conditioned by material
nature, is not supreme. The Supreme is different from the individual
soul. The Supreme Lord can extend His hand without limit; the
individual soul cannot. In Bhagavad-gita the Lord says that if anyone
offers Him a flower, or a fruit, or a little water, He accepts it. If
the Lord is a far distance away, how can He accept things? This is the
omnipotence of the Lord: even though He is situated in His own abode,
far, far away from earth, He can extend His hand to accept what anyone
offers. That is His potency. In the Brahma-samhita (5.37) it is
stated, goloka eva nivasaty akhilatma-bhutah: although He is always
engaged in pastimes in His transcendental planet, He is all-pervading.
The individual soul cannot claim that he is all-pervading. Therefore
this verse describes the Supreme Soul, the Personality of Godhead, not
the individual soul.