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"O Lord, I behold in Your body all the gods and all the diverse hosts of beings,
brahma, Siva, the seers, and the lustrous snakes" - (arjuna's words as he has
the viSva rUpa darSanam).
mattah parataram nAnyat ki'ncidasti dhana'njaya |
mayi sarvam idam protam sUtre maNigaNA iva ||
"There is nothing higher than Myself, O arjuna.
All this is strung on Me, as rows of gems on a thread".
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(gItA 7.7)
nammAzhvAr refers to perumAL as "uyirgaL ellA ulagum
uDaiyavan" (tiruvAi.3.2.11); - He is the Soul of all souls.
periAzhvAr describes yaSOdA's anubhavam of finding all the universes inside
His mouth - "vaiyam Ezhum kaNDAL piLLai vAyuLE" (periAzhvAr tiru. 1.1.6)
SrI Samkara vyAkhyAnam is: bhUtAni atra abhimukhyena vasanti iti bhUtAvAsah
- He in whom all beings, in essence, dwell, is bhUtA-vAsah.
b) SrI kRshNa datta bhAradvAj interprets the nAma as "He who dwells in the
devotees who perform His worship and sing His praise" - bhUteshu bhajana
parAyaNeshu prANishu AvAso yasya iti bhUtA-vAsah.
c) SrI cinmayAnanda interprets the terms bhUtAh as referring to the five
Great Elements, and thus interprets the nAma to mean "He Who is the very
dwelling place for the Great Elements". He quotes the following from
harivamSa as support: "vasanti tvayi bhUtAni bhUtAvAsas-tato
bhavAn" (279.52).
SrI satyadevo vAsishTha gives some examples to illustrate His guNa of
bhUtAvAsah in the context of His being the Controller of the five great
elements. Even though we human beings are constituted of the five great
elements, our principal nature is that of pRthvI, while that of the fish is
primarily the nature of water. The fish is created such that its lungs don't fill
with water as it lives in water, whereas the fish cannot live outside the water