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13.15Krishna
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बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च ।सूक्ष्मत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ॥

bahir antaś ca bhūtānām acaraṃ caram eva ca |sūkṣmatvāt tad avijñeyaṃ dūrasthaṃ cāntike ca tat ||

बहिः अन्तः · bahiḥ antaḥ
outside and inside
भूतानाम् · bhūtānām
of beings
अचरम् चरम् · acaram caram
the unmoving and the moving
सूक्ष्मत्वात् · sūkṣmatvāt
due to subtlety
अविज्ञेयम् · avijñeyam
hard to comprehend
दूरस्थम् · dūrastham
standing far
अन्तिके · antike
near

Outside and inside beings, the unmoving and the moving too — through subtlety it is hard to grasp — and it stands both far away and near.

Original plain-language translation

Distance collapses: the farthest is the nearest, the subtlest the most intimate. 'Hard to grasp' is honest method — the knowable is not an object among objects but the ground of all grasping.

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