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Verse 7·9

The sacred syllable OM resonates in all sound

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पुण्यो गन्धः पृथिव्यां च तेजश्चास्मि विभावसौ ।जीवनं सर्वभूतेषु तपश्चास्मि तपस्विषु ॥

puṇyo gandhaḥ pṛthivyāṃ ca tejaścāsmi vibhāvasaujīvanaṃ sarvabhūteṣu tapaścāsmi tapasviṣu

I am pure scent in earth and energy of light in fire; I am life in all existences, I am the ascetic force of those who do askesis.

Gītā 7·9

The one original and eternal fact is the energy of Nature, the power and quality of being which so manifests itself to the soul through the senses. And what is essential in the senses, most spiritual, most subtle is itself stuff of that eternal quality and power. But energy or power of being in Nature is the Divine himself in his Prakriti; each sense in its purity is therefore that Prakriti, each sense is the Divine in his dynamic conscious force.

CWSA 19 · Essays on the Gita · pp. 272–73

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