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Sanskrit

सर्वतः पाणिपादं तत्सर्वतोऽक्षिशिरोमुखम् । सर्वतः श्रुतिमल्लोके सर्वमावृत्य तिष्ठति ॥

sarvataḥ pāṇipādaṃ tat sarvato 'kṣiśiromukham sarvataḥ śrutimal loke sarvam āvṛtya tiṣṭhati

Translation

Everywhere That hath hands and feet, everywhere eyes, heads, and mouths; all-hearing, He dwelleth in the world, enveloping all,

Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain

Explanation

The description proceeds by deliberate paradox: hands, feet, eyes, heads, and mouths “everywhere,” hearing everything, enveloping the world. Read literally this is nonsensical — nothing has infinite bodies — which is exactly the point: the language strains to describe something that isn’t spatially localized the way objects in the field are, reaching for bodily imagery precisely to demonstrate its own inadequacy for the job.