Mr. G. V. Subbaramiah, a Lecturer in English in Nellore, asked: Brahman is the one by whom all this is pervaded (yena sarvamidamthatham). 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 (upāsana soukaryam). The fact is that God is all. There is nothing apart from Him.
D.: The individual is said to give up decayed bodies (jirnāni sarirāni) and to take up new ones (navāni). Would the statement apply to infant deaths also?
M.: You do not know, in the first place, what is jirnāni and what is navāni. Secondly jirna and nava are relative terms. What is old to a king may be new to a beggar. The truth is that the individual signifies the state of embodiment till the time of liberation!