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Three worlds

3 verses from the Bhagavad Gita on three worlds. Explore teachings across 2 chapters.

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Chapter 11 • Verse 20 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form
Dyav a-prithivyor idam antaram hi vyaptam tvayaikena dishash ca sarvah, drishtvadbhutam rupam ugram tavedam loka-trayam pravyathitam mahatman

O mighty soul, You alone pervade the space between heaven and earth and all directions. Seeing Your wondrous and terrible form, all three worlds are trembling.

  • •God pervades all space between heaven and earth
  • •The universal form inspires both wonder and fear
  • •Even the cosmos trembles before the divine
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Chapter 11 • Verse 43 →The Yoga of the Vision of the Universal Form
Pitāsi lokasya charācharasya tvam asya pūjyaś cha gurur garīyān, na tvat-samo 'sty abhyadhikaḥ kuto 'nyo loka-traye 'py apratima-prabhāva

You are the father of this universe of moving and non-moving, its worshipable master, the greatest guru. O incomparable power, no one is equal to You, and how can anyone be greater in the three worlds?

  • •God is the supreme father and teacher of all creation
  • •There is none equal to or greater than the divine
  • •The highest guru is God itself
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Chapter 15 • Verse 17 →The Yoga of the Supreme Person
Uttamah purushas tv anyah paramatmety udahrtah, yo loka-trayam avishya bibharty avyaya ishvarah

Yet there is another, the Supreme Person — the Paramatma — who is called the indestructible Lord and who pervades the three worlds and maintains them. Beyond both the perishable and the imperishable stands the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who sustains all three worlds as the transcendent source of all existence.

  • •The Supreme Person, Paramatma, transcends both the perishable and the imperishable
  • •The Lord pervades and sustains all three worlds as the indestructible supreme controller
  • •Understanding Purushottama — the uttama purusha — is the highest spiritual knowledge
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