Cluster 0470 — BG-13.15 — OUTSIDE-INSIDE + ACARA-CARA + AVIJÑEYA-SŪKṢMA + DŪRA-ANTIKE

Sanskrit

बहिरन्तश्च भूतानामचरं चरमेव च । सूक्षमत्वात्तदविज्ञेयं दूरस्थं चान्तिके च तत् ॥१५॥

Translation

bahir antaḥ ca bhūtānām (OUTSIDE and INSIDE the bhūtas) acaram caram eva ca (and INDEED MOVING and NON-MOVING) — sūkṣmatvāt tad avijñeyam (DUE-to-SUBTLENESS — THAT — UN-KNOWABLE) — dūra-stham ca antike ca tat (FAR-STANDING — AND NEAR — IS-THAT).

Function

BG-13.15 CONTINUES the iconic JÑEYA-PARADOX-CASCADE opened at BG-13.13 (the sarvataḥ-pāṇi-pāda cosmic-body paradox at cluster 0468) and intensified at BG-13.14 (the sarvendriya-guṇābhāsa + sarvendriya-vivarjita + asakta-sarva-bhṛt + nirguṇa-guṇa-bhoktṛ paradoxes at cluster 0469). BG-13.15 delivers a precise iconic 4-paradox-set:

(i) OUTSIDE and INSIDE the bhūtas — bahir antaś ca bhūtānām — the jñeya is BOTH-OUTSIDE-and-INSIDE simultaneously.

(ii) ACARA and CARA — acaram caram eva ca — the jñeya pervades BOTH non-moving (mountains, trees, stones) AND moving (animals, humans, planets) bhūtas.

(iii) AVIJÑEYA because of SŪKṢMATĀ — sūkṣmatvāt tad avijñeyam — un-knowable on account of subtleness; ordinary cognition cannot reach the jñeya.

(iv) DŪRA-STHA and ANTIKE — dūra-stham cāntike ca tat — FAR-STANDING and YET NEAR — the canonical dūra-stha-cāntike-ca paradox citing the precise iconic Īśa-Upaniṣad 5 tad dūre tad-vantike.

Krishna's pedagogical-architecture is the nirviśeṣa-via-viśeṣa-yugapad apophasis — naming the jñeya not by selecting one attribute over its opposite but by holding BOTH-OPPOSITES SIMULTANEOUSLY.

Jñāneśvar's 7-ovi Treatment

Jñāneśvar's treatment (13.913-919) is economical compared to BG-13.14's 21-ovi treatment — using 5 classical pervasion-similes to render the 4-paradox-set via the deep-doctrine of pervasion-without-modification.

13.913 — FIRE-and-HEAT-non-differentiated (the carācara-pervasion)

jēm carācara bhūtām — mājīm asē paṇḍusutā — nānā vanhīm uṣṇatā — abhēdēm jaisī (THAT which is IN-the-MOVING-AND-NON-MOVING-BHŪTAS — PĀṆḌU-SUTA — like FIRE and HEAT — NON-DIFFERENTIATED).

The most economical of pervasion-similes opens the cluster. FIRE-and-HEAT are inseparable yet conceptually distinct; the jñeya pervades carācara-bhūtas in exactly this manner.

13.914 — SŪKṢMA-DAŚĀ pervasion + JÑEYA pointer

taisēni avināśa-bhāvēm — jēm sūkṣma-daśē āghavēm — vyāpūni asē tēm jāṇāvē — jñēya ētha (in this same way — in the NON-PERISHING MODE — THAT which in the SUBTLE-STATE PERVADES EVERYTHING — KNOW: this is the JÑEYA HERE).

Names the precise iconic SŪKṢMA-DAŚĀ as the mode of pervasion and binds the cluster explicitly to the BG-13.12-17 JÑEYA-block.

13.915 — the FULL 4-PARADOX-SET in 1 OVI (the iconic 1-ovi delivery)

jēm ēka āmtubāhērī — jēm ēka javaḷa durī — jēm ēkavāñcūni parī — dujīm nāhīm (THAT-ONE INSIDE-and-OUTSIDE — THAT-ONE NEAR-and-FAR — THAT — EXCEPT-FOR-the-ONE — THERE IS NO OTHER).

Among the most-economical paradox-renderings in the entire Bhāvārtha-Dīpikā. Jñāneśvar compresses Krishna's 4-paradox-set into 1 ovi via the precise iconic jēm ēka X — jēm ēka Y repeated formula, then resolves all paradoxes via the advaita-collapse clause ekavāñcūni dujīm nāhīm (no OTHER apart from the ONE). The verse preserves the precise Īśa-Upaniṣad-5 quartet tad antar asya sarvasya tad u sarvasyāsya bāhyataḥ + tad dūre tad-vantike.

13.916 — KṢĪRA-SĀGARA-GOḌĪ (no-gradation-middle-shore)

kṣīra-sāgarīmcī gōḍī — mājīm bahu thaḍiyē thōḍī — hēm nāhīm tayā paravaḍī — pūrṇa jēm gā (the MILK-OCEAN's SWEETNESS — MORE-in-the-MIDDLE LESS-at-the-SHORE — NO SUCH GRADATION — FULL IS THAT).

The precise iconic non-tāratamya (no-gradation) pervasion-simile. The closing pūrṇa jēm gā renders the canonical Īśa-śānti-mantra pūrṇam adaḥ pūrṇam idam in 3 words. The jñeya pervades the FAR-and-NEAR equally — the dūra-stha-cāntike paradox is resolved by uniform-pervasion-without-gradation.

13.917 — SVEDAJĀDI-ANUSYŪTI (cross-4-yoni unbroken-threading)

svedajādi-prabhṛtī — vēgaḷālyām bhūtīm — jayāciyē anusyūtīm — khōmaṇēm nāhīm (in the SVEDAJA-and-the-rest — across DIFFERENT BHŪTA-classes — in WHOSE CONTINUOUS-THREADING — there is NO OBSTRUCTION).

Renders the bahir-antaḥ-bhūtānām clause via the classical 4-yoni-classification (svedaja-from-sweat + aṇḍaja-from-egg + jarāyuja-from-womb + udbhija-from-sprouts — the canonical Manu-Smṛti 1.43-46 enumeration). The jñeya's anusyūta (continuous-threading) pervades all 4 living-being-classes without obstruction.

13.918 — GHAṬA-SAHASRA-CANDRIKĀ (moon-reflected-in-1000-pots)

paim śrōtē mukhaṭiḷakā — ghaṭa-sahasrā anēkām — mājīm bimbōni candrikā — na bhēdē jevīm (O FOREHEAD-TILAK-OF-LISTENERS — in MULTIPLE-THOUSANDS-of-POTS — the MOON-LIGHT REFLECTED — DOES NOT DIFFERENTIATE).

The canonical Vedānta non-differentiation-via-multiple-reflection simile — the precise iconic jala-sūrya-candra-pratibimba image that Śankara's Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya 3.2.18 deploys for the ātman-jīva-relation. Jñāneśvar's ghaṭa-sahasra-candrikā is a precise variant — ONE moon reflected in 1000 pots without itself differentiating. The OUTSIDE-INSIDE paradox is resolved: the jñeya is ONE but APPEARS in MANY without undergoing actual differentiation.

13.919 — SAME-TASTE-EVERYWHERE PAIR (lavaṇa-kṣāratā + uchha-goḍī)

nānā lavaṇa-kaṇācīyē rāśī — kṣāratā ēkaci jaisī — kām kōḍī ēkīm ūsīm — ēkaci gōḍī (in MOUNTAINS of SALT-CRYSTALS — the SALTINESS is ONE — or in MILLIONS of SUGARCANES — the SWEETNESS is ONE).

Closes the cluster with the precise iconic SAME-TASTE-EVERYWHERE pair binding to two canonical Upaniṣadic-similes: the Bṛhadāraṇyaka 2.4.12 saindhava-ghana (salt-block-dissolved-in-water) from Yājñavalkya-Maitreyī-samvāda and the Chāndogya 6.13 lavaṇa-udaka from Uddālaka-Śvetaketu's tat-tvam-asi teaching. The precise doctrine: a single uniform-quality (saltiness, sweetness) pervades a vast multiplicity (mountain of salt crystals, millions of sugarcanes) without itself becoming-multiple. The jñeya pervades MOVING-and-NON-MOVING + INSIDE-and-OUTSIDE + FAR-and-NEAR in exactly this manner.

Significance

Cluster 0470 is the precise iconic SPATIAL-MODAL-PARADOX-NODE of the BG-13 JÑEYA-block. The 7-ovi treatment achieves paradox-resolution-via-uniform-pervasion-imagery using 5 classical-similes (FIRE-WOOD + KṢĪRA-SĀGARA + SVEDAJĀDI-ANUSYŪTI + GHAṬA-CANDRIKĀ + LAVAṆA-UCHHA-PAIR) bound to canonical Upaniṣadic sources (Īśa-5 + Īśa-śānti-mantra + Bṛhadāraṇyaka-saindhava + Chāndogya-lavaṇa-udaka + Brahma-Sūtra-Bhāṣya-3.2.18).

The 1-ovi delivery at 13.915 — jēm ēka āmtu-bāhērī — jēm ēka javaḷa durī — jēm ēkavāñcūni parī — dujīm nāhīm — is among the most-economical paradox-renderings in the entire Bhāvārtha-Dīpikā, compressing Krishna's 4-paradox-set into a single architecturally-precise jēm ēka X — jēm ēka Y repeated formula and resolving all paradoxes via the advaita-collapse clause.

The cluster's deep-doctrine is precise: spatial-modal-opposites (INSIDE-OUTSIDE + ACARA-CARA + DŪRA-ANTIKE) are RESOLVED-BY uniform-pervasion-without-modification — the jñeya pervades both poles of each opposition without becoming-one-or-the-other, just as fire pervades wood + kṣīra-sāgara's sweetness pervades middle-and-shore + moon reflects in 1000 pots + saltiness pervades a salt-mountain + sweetness pervades a million sugarcanes. The cluster pairs with cluster 0469 (BG-13.14 sarvendriya-paradox) and cluster 0471 (BG-13.16 avibhakta-vibhakta-iva paradox) as the central 3-cluster JÑEYA-PARADOX-NODE of the BG-13 JÑEYA-block.