SEVENTH DISCOURSE.
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Know this to be the womb of all beings. I am the source of the forthgoing of the whole universe and likewise the place of its dissolving. (6)
मत्तः परतरं नान्यत्किञ्चिदस्ति धनञ्जय ।
मयि सर्वमिदं प्रोतं सूत्रे मणिगणा इव ॥ ७ ॥
There is naught whatsoever higher than I, O Dhananjaya. All this is threaded on Me, as rows of pearls on a string. (7)
रसोऽहमप्सु कौन्तेय प्रभाऽस्मि शशिसूर्ययोः ।
प्रणवः सर्ववेदेषु शब्दः खे पौरुषं नृषु ॥ ८ ॥
I the sapidity in waters, O son of Kuntî, I the radiance in moon and sun; the Word of Power[1] in all the Vedas, sound in ether, and virility in men; (8)
पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ ।
जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु ॥ ९ ॥
The pure fragrance of earths and the bril-
