Verse 9.10

Verse 9.10: “With Me as the Overlord does the Cosmic Nature generate this moveable and immoveable world, and by reason of this it is, Oh son of Kunti, that this living world keeps on variously transforming. (131)

Commentary called Jnaneshwari by Jnaneshwar:

As the sun sets going all the world’s active life, so do I, oh Son of Pandu, start creation of the universe. Because I lord over the Prakriti and stir it up, the entire mass of living and lifeless things comes into being, and so am I held to be the motive-power of all the universe. Now behold in this light of truth, the union of all things in divine glory and then their being shall be found in Me, and not Mine in them. Nor shall you miss the great secret that neither is creation in Me nor am I in creation. Thus have I opened up to you, the deepest mystery of My being. Now hold fast to it, and barring out all sense-pleasures enjoy the vision. So long as this secret truth (varma) has not been in one’s grip, My real being, Oh Partha will not be known at all, just as a grain-particle (missed) in (a heap of) husk cannot be found. Well may one from guess-work fancy that he has come by the Knowledge of the Supreme, but it is all in vain, for can the soil ever soak in moisture of a mirage? The Moon’s disc seems to be caught up in a net spread over water; and now take the net out and shake it; the Moon’s disc is not there! Even so, do men and dupes of words indulge in tall talk about experience gained, and yet the truth is that by real test they are found to be devoid of it.