Sanskrit
यथाऽऽकाशस्थितो नित्यं वायुः सर्वत्रगो महान् । तथा सर्वाणि भूतानि मत्स्थानीत्युपधारय ॥
yathākāśasthito nityaṃ vāyuḥ sarvatrago mahān tathā sarvāṇi bhūtāni matsthānīty upadhāraya
Translation
As the mighty air everywhere moving is rooted in the Ether, so all beings rest rooted in Me—thus know thou.
Annie Besant · The Bhagavad-Gita, translated by Annie Besant (4th ed., 1922) — Wikisource · Public Domain
Explanation
The simile of air rooted in ether is the chapter’s clearest analogy for the abstract claim of verses 4-5, closing out the three-verse unit that opens the chapter’s core metaphysics before verse 7 shifts registers entirely, from static being to cyclical cosmology.