Bhagwad Gita - Post 97

Verse 1

Arjuna Uvaacha:

Kim tadbrahma kim adhyaatmam

Kim karma purushottama;

Adhibhootam cha kim proktam

Adhidaivam kimuchyate.

Arjuna said:

What is that Brahman? What is Adhyatma? What is action, O best among men? What is declared to be Adhibhuta? And what is Adhidaiva said to be?

Verse 2

Adhiyajnah katham ko’tra

Dehe’smin madhusoodana;

Prayaanakaale cha katham

Jneyo’si niyataatmabhih.

Who and how is Adhiyajna here in this body, O destroyer of Madhu (Krishna)? And how, at the time of death, art Thou to be known by the self-controlled one?

Verse 3

Sri Bhagawan Uvaacha:

Aksharam brahma paramam Swabhaavo’dhyaatmamuchyate;

Bhootabhaavodbhavakaro

Visargah karmasamjnitah.

The Blessed Lord said:

Brahman is the Imperishable, the Supreme; His essential nature is called Self-knowledge; the offering (to the gods) which causes existence and manifestation of beings and which also sustains them is called action.

Verse 4

Adhibhootam ksharo bhaavah

Purushashcha adhi daivatam;

Adhiyajno’hamevaatra

Dehe dehabhritaam vara.

  

Adhibhuta (knowledge of the elements) pertains to My perishable Nature, and the Purusha or soul is the Adhidaiva; I alone am the Adhiyajna here in this body, O best among the embodied (men)!

Now, Sri Krishna takes over and starts answering to Arjuna’s questions on who / what is,

-                  Brahman

-                  Adhyatma

-                  Adhibhuta

-                  Adhidaiva and

-                  Adhiyagna

BRAHMAN

IMPERISHABLE IS THE SUPREME BRAHMAN - The term Brahman indicates the one changeless and imperishable subjective Essence behind the phenomenal world. It becomes the Self, the Conscious Principle which illumines the body, mind and intellect from birth to death in all births.

It exists everywhere, and yet it appears to be nowhere. It exists everywhere and, therefore, everything lives and exists. It appears to be existing nowhere because it is not the object of the perception of anybody’s sense organs. Inasmuch as the world is an object and the Absolute Brahman is not an object, the world appears to exist and the Absolute does not appear to exist anywhere at all. 

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