Verse 21
The self is one· Verses 21–26
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श्रीभगवानुवाच ।वचो वः समवेतार्थं तातैतदुपमन्महे ।यन्नः पुत्रान् समुद्दिश्य तत्त्वग्राम उदाहृतः
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21Hearing his father speak so, the Bhagavan, bull of the Satvatas, bent low in respect and answered him smiling, in a smooth voice. 22Bhagavan said: Father, we hold this word of yours to be well fitted together, since with us your sons for its aim the whole company of what is real has been set out. 23I, you, this honoured elder, and these people who live in Dvaraka: all of them, best of the Yadus, are to be looked into in this way, and everything that moves and does not move. 24The self is one, lit by itself, everlasting, other than all this, beyond the strands; and by the strands it has itself sent forth it shows as many in the beings those strands have made.
25Sky, wind, fire, water and earth, in the things they have made, show or are hidden, are little or large, according to what holds them; and this one too comes to manyness. 26So the Bhagavan spoke, king, to Vasudeva; and hearing it, his many-mindedness undone, he grew silent and glad at heart.