SLOKA OF THE DAY:

Bhagavad Gita As It Is -
Chapter 9 Text 6
yathakasa-sthito nit yam
vayuh sarvatra-go mahan
tatha sarvani bhutani
mat-sthan ity upadhara ya

yatha- just as; akasa-sthitah--situated in the sky; nityam--always; vayuh--the wind; sarvatra-gah--blowing everywhere; mahan--great; tatha--similarly; sarvani bhutani--all created beings; mat-sthani--situated in Me; iti--thus; upadharaya--try to understand.

TRANSLATION

Understand that as the mighty wind, blowing everywhere, rests always in the sky, all created beings rest in Me.

JOURNAL:

A lovely sloka for October. Here are some excerpts from Srila Prabhupada's purport that take us deeper into this example:

For the ordinary person it is almost inconceivable how the huge material creation is resting in Him. But the Lord is giving an example which may help us to understand. The sky may be the biggest manifestation we can conceive. And in that sky the wind or air is the biggest manifestation in the cosmic world. The movement of the air influences the movements of everything. But although the wind is great, it is still situated within the sky; the wind is not beyond the sky.

...He is aloof from everything, as the sky is always aloof from the activities of the wind.

In the Upanisads it is stated, yad-bhisa vatah pavate: "It is out of the fear of the Supreme Lord that the wind is blowing." (Taittiriya Upanisad 2.8.1)