Chapter 4 · Verse 1

जनक उवाच

janaka uvāca

Chapter 4 opens with Janaka’s voice again, now speaking from deepening realization. He introduces the classic Advaita analogy of ghaṭākāśa (the space within a pot) and mahākāśa (the infinite space outside): just as space is indivisibly one whether inside or outside the pot, so the Supreme Consciousness (parama caitanya) pervades both the body and the universe without division. The pot does not divide space — it only appears to. This analogy, central to Śaṅkara’s commentaries, demonstrates that limitation is an appearance superimposed by form, not a real division of the formless.