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and feet everywhere, with eyes and heads and mouths everywhere, with hearing
everywhere; That exists enveloping all.The Knowable has hands and feet everywhere.
The existence of Kshetrajna is indicated by the upadhis of the senseorgans
of all living beings, Kshetrajna (the self conscious principle living behind
the senseorgans) is so called because of the upadhi of Kshetra ; and this
Kshetra is of various forms, such as hands, feet, etc. All the variety caused
in Kshetrajna, by the variety in the upadhis of Kshetra is but illusory,
and it has therefore been saidin the words It not said to be sat or asatthat
It should be known as devoid of all variety. Though what is caused (in Kshetrajna)
by upadhis is illusory, still it is spoken ofin the words that It has hands
and feet everywhereas though it were an attribute of the:Knowable. only
with a view to indicate Its existence Accordingly there is the saying of
the samapradaya vidsof those who know the right traditional method of teachingwhich
runs as follows: That which is devoid of all duality is described by adbyaropa
and apavada, i.e by superimposition and negation, by attribution and denial.
Hands, feet and the like, constituting the limbs of all bodies in all places,
derive their activity from the Energy inherent in the Knowable, and as such
they are mere marks of Its existence and are spoken of as belonging to It
only by a figure of speech.All the rest should Be similarly interpreted:
It (Brahman) exists in the world, in the whole animal creation, pervading
all.Brahman is unconditioned.The purpose of this verse is to prevent the
supposition that the Knowable is (really) possessed of the upadhisthe senseorgans
such as hands, feet; and the like,which are merely superimposed (upon It.
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