Lord Krishna
Divine TeacherThe Supreme Lord, the charioteer and divine guide of Arjuna. Krishna delivers the eternal wisdom of the Gita, revealing the nature of the soul, duty, and the path to liberation.
Speaking: Chapter 13, Verse 14
Verse 14
The Yoga of the Field and the Knower of the Field
Everywhere are Its hands and feet, everywhere Its eyes, heads, and faces; everywhere It has ears. It dwells in the world, pervading everything.
Context & Meaning
A poetic description of Brahman's omnipresence: hands and feet everywhere, eyes and faces and heads in every direction, ears pervading all space. This is not literal anatomy but philosophical poetry — a way of saying that nothing falls outside Brahman's reach, perception, or presence. The divine is not distant, watching from outside the world — it pervades everything, acts through everything, sees through every set of eyes. The sense organs of all living beings are, in a deeper sense, the organs of the one universal consciousness.
Scholar Commentaries
1 commentary · Public domainMadhvacharya
DvaitaThis verse describes God's omnipresence (sarvavyāpakatva) in the most vivid terms. God is not merely everywhere in the sense of a diffuse field — He is actively present, actively perceiving, actively sustaining. Every act of perception in any being is, at its deepest level, God's own act of perceiving through that being.