By me, in form unmanifest, is all this universe pervaded; all beings dwell in me, but I dwell not in them. - W. Douglas P. Hill

Just as the distinction between good and evil is valid only on the empiric plane, so on that plane alone man's will is free to choose, man is responsible for sin. In actual fact, where man is God and personal being a delusion the question of real freedom and responsibility cannot arise. It is this double view of truth —the higher and the lower—that explains the apparent weakness of Hindu doctrine in general (with its incurable inclination to pantheism), and the much-blamed 'inconsistency' of the Gītā, on the subject of freewill.

On the Field of Right, the Kuru-Field, assembled, eager to fight, what did my warriors and the warriors of Pāṇḍu, O Saṁjaya?

Guarded by Bhīṣma, this our force is all too weak; and all too strong that force of theirs, by Bhīma guarded.