Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 391

अन्तः स्वयं चापि बहिः स्वयं च

स्वयं पुरस्तात्स्वयमेव पश्चात् ।

स्वयं ह्यावाच्यां स्वयमप्युदीच्यां

तथोपरिष्टात्स्वयमप्यधस्तात् ॥

antaḥ svayaṃ cāpi bahiḥ svayaṃ ca

svayaṃ purastātsvayameva paścāt |

svayaṃ hyāvācyāṃ svayamapyudīcyāṃ

tathopariṣṭātsvayamapyadhastāt ||

(Sankaracarya's Vivekachudamani 391)

The Self is within, the Self is without; the Self is in front, the Self is behind; the Self is to the south, the Self is to the north; so too It is above and below.

A pure devotee is completely free from the tendency to enjoy things separately from the Lord’s service. He does not see anything in the universe as unfavorable, because he sees everything as the expanded potency of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Such a devotee’s purpose in existing is to give pleasure somehow or other to the Supreme Lord. Thus everything that a pure devotee experiences, moment by moment, increases his ecstatic loving desire to satisfy the transcendental senses of the Lord. For a Pure devotee, the Supreme Lord is in every direction.

In Bhagavad-gita (6.30) the Lord says:

yo mam pasyati sarvatra

sarvam ca mayi pasyati

tasyaham na pranasyami

sa ca me na pranasyati

The yogi or one perfected in the science of the individual consciousness attaining communion with the ultimate consciousness who perceives the Supreme Lord in all beings is comparatively more advanced then the yogi described in the previous verse. One who established in yoga perceives Lord Krishna presence within all created beings as Paramatma the Supreme soul and ultimate controller of all beings from the highest demigod down to an inanimate tree and sees all created beings as existing within Him in His independent external energy the Brahman or spiritual substratum pervading all existence which all beings depend on and are controlled by for their very existence. Such a yogi perceiving in this way is never disconnected from the Supreme Lord nor is the Supreme Lord ever disconnected from them. The purport is that the Supreme Lord bestows His grace on such yogis and they are empowered by spiritual knowledge to behold Him in all His splendor.