And yet, the beings are not in Me. Behold My divine opulence: My Self that sustains all beings, that generates all beings but is not situated in them.

An even greater paradox: after saying everything is in Him, Kṛṣṇa denies that beings are in Him. This is yoga aiśvaram — the divine power to simultaneously maintain apparently contradictory truths.

The Lord’s three titles reveal His cosmic function: bhūta-bhṛt (sustainer), bhūta-stha (permeating), and bhūta-bhāvana (generator). Everything depends on His mama ātmā — His own Supreme Self.

This is the viśiṣṭādvaita vision: the world is not an illusion, but its existence depends entirely on the Lord, as the image depends on the mirror.