Talk 270.
Mr. G. V. Subbaramiah, a lecturer in English in Nellore, asked:Brahman [?] is the one by whom all this is pervaded (yena sarvamidam
thatham). But then how does Sri Krishna specify the vibhutis in Chapter X of Bhagavad Gita?
M.: The specifications are in reply to a definite question by Arjuna who required to know the Lord's vibhutis for convenience of worship (upasana soukaryam). The fact is that God is all. There is nothing apart from Him.
D.: The individual is said to give up decayed bodies (jirnani sarirani)
and to take up new ones (navani). Would the statement apply to infant deaths also?
M.: You do not know, in the first place, what is jirnani and what is navani. Secondly, jirna [?] and nava [?] are relative terms. What is old to a king may be new to a beggar. The truth is that the individuality signifies the state of embodiment till the time of liberation!