W. Douglas P. Hill: Being

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“The Lord, O Arjuna, dwells in the heart of every being, and by his delusive power spins round all beings set on the machine.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 211. (61.)

Heart

“Just as the distinction between good and evil is valid only on the empiric plane, so on that plane alone man's will is free to choose, man is responsible for sin. In actual fact, where man is God and personal being a delusion the question of real freedom and responsibility cannot arise. It is this double view of truth —the higher and the lower—that explains the apparent weakness of Hindu doctrine in general (with its incurable inclination to pantheism), and the much-blamed 'inconsistency' of the Gītā, on the subject of freewill.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 47. (25. Freewill)

God , Truth , Question , Freedom

“The senseless think that I am the unmanifest that has come to manifestation; they do not know my higher being, immutable, supreme.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 129. (24.)

Thinking

“Fools scorn me when I dwell in human form: my higher being they know not as Great Lord of beings.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: Chapter 9 (Raja–Vidya–Raja–Guhya yoga), p. 141. (11.)

Fools

“By me, in form unmanifest, is all this universe pervaded; all beings dwell in me, but I dwell not in them.”

W. Douglas P. Hill

Source: The Bhagavadgītā (1973), p. 139. (4.)

Universe