Bhagavad Gita · Chapter 7, verse 7
The image of the world strung on the divine like pearls on a thread is one of the Gita's most quoted pictures of how everything is connected.
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मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किंचिदस्ति धनंजय ।मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥
mattaḥ parataraṃ nānyatkiṃcidasti dhanaṃjaya |mayi sarvamidaṃ protaṃ sūtre maṇigaṇā iva ||
There is nothing at all higher than me, Arjuna. Everything here is strung on me, like pearls on a thread.
हे अर्जुन, मुझसे ऊपर और कुछ भी नहीं है। यह सब कुछ मुझमें ऐसे पिरोया है जैसे धागे में मोती।
अर्जुना, माझ्यापेक्षा श्रेष्ठ असे काहीही नाही. हे सर्व माझ्यात धाग्यात ओवलेल्या मोत्यांसारखे ओवलेले आहे.
In Sanskrit, sounds at word edges merge (sandhi), so a line looks like one long word. Split it to see each word and its meaning.
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किंचिदस्ति धनंजय ।मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥
एतद्योनीनि भूतानि सर्वाणीत्युपधारय ।
Understand that all living beings come from these two natures. I am the source of the whole world and also the place where it dissolves.
7.8रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभास्मि शशिसूर्ययोः ।
I am the taste in water, the light of the moon and the sun, the sacred syllable Om in all the Vedas, the sound in space and the strength in people.
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