Bhagwad Gita - Post 118

Verse 3

Yo maamajamanaadim cha

Vetti lokamaheshwaram;

Asammoodhah sa martyeshu

Sarvapaapaih pramuchyate.

He who knows Me as unborn and beginningless, as the great Lord of the worlds, he, among mortals, is undeluded; he is liberated from all sins.

THE LORD OF ALL THE WORLDS (SARVA-LOKAMAHESHWARAH)

'Loka' comes from a root meaning 'to experience', and therefore, the world should, in its full import, mean 'a field for experiencing'. Usually, it is mistaken as the "field of experiences" that one revels in at all levels of one’s  body, my mind and my intellect.

In reality, Pure Awareness or Consciousness, without which we are dead to the world, with which we  perceive the world and live in it actively, should necessarily be the Presiding Chieftain that rules with His Grace, our  'loka'. 

To make the distinction between the Souls and Himself, Shree Krishna declares that He is loka maheśhwaram (the great Lord of all the abodes of existence). The same declaration has been made in the Śhwetāśhvatara Upaniṣhad:

Tamīśhwarāṇāṁ paramaṁ maheśhwaraṁ

Taṁ devatānāṁ paramaṁ cha daivataṁ

Patiṁ patīnāṁ paramaṁ parastād

Vidāma devaṁ bhuvaneśhmīḍyam (6.7)[v3]

“The Supreme Lord is the Controller of all controllers; he is the God of all gods. He is the Beloved of all beloveds; he is the Ruler of the world, and beyond the material energy.”

The Self being the same everywhere, the Atman that rules my world is the Atman that rules the worlds of all individuals. The entire universe is the sum total of the worlds of experience of each individual, and evidently, the 'ruler' that governs the entire Universe must necessarily be the Absolute Self Itself. 

HE WHO KNOWS ME AS BIRTHLESS, BEGINNINGLESS AND AS THE GREAT LORD OF THE WORLDS.

A major session was  taken few months earlier on the following  verse from Taittriya Upanishad

Om Brahmavid aapnoti param  

Tad eshabhyukta

Satyam Jnanam Anantam Brahma

Yo veda nihitam guhayaam parame vyoman

Sa ashnute sarvaan kamaan  

Saha brahmana vipaschiti iti

OM. The knower of brahman attains the supreme.  with reference to that, there is this following hymn stated.

Brahman is truth (Sathyam), knowledge ( Jnanam) & infinity ( Anantam).

He who knows that it exists in the cave of the heart,  in the transcendent akasa, realizes all his desires, along with omniscient brahman.

In this session, while explaining SATHYAM or SATH, Six levels  were explained.

First Level: Astitha Maatram – “Existence alone”. This is where we began with the definition of the term Sat. 

Second Level: Guna Rahitam – “without any properties”. Being Pure Existence the implication is it is not an object and so it cannot have any properties. 

Third Level: Indriya Agocharam – “not graspable by the senses”. Since it is not an object, it is something that cannot be perceived by the senses. 

Fourth Level: Sarva Gatam – “present in everything”. If it is not within the range of our senses, then it has to be something that pervades everything, i.e. it has to be Infinite in nature. 

Fifth Level: Ekam – “One”. If it is all-pervading and infinite, then logically it has to be one whole, that is omnipresent. 

Sixth Level: Advaitam  – “without a second”. There can only be one Infinite. This understanding  rules out the possibility of there being anything else other than the pure, unborn, changeless SATH. So there cannot be another existence, SATH 2.!!! 

Without a steady, spotless screen behind the everchanging play of lights and shades, there cannot be a thrilling play.

Without a permanent and motionless bed, the water in a river cannot maintain their endless flow.

Without the solid and inert rails, the flying wheels of a train cannot move on.

Such screen / Bed / Rail - they are changeless, eternal TRUTH / EXISTENCE. 

A clod of earth or clay takes many shapes, jar, pot, lid and so on. All these changes are unreal or apparent, but the real nature i.e., clay-ness does not change. Clay is true and all the changed forms are untrue.  Gold is true but the variegated shapes it takes are untrue with respect the real nature of gold. In philosophy, one has to have the approach of a gold smith or a potter, but not that of the consumer.  

The moment we understand and live in the realization that the Self is unborn and beginning less, and that It is not concerned with decaying and perishable matter, we have gained all that has to be gained, and known all that has to be known. Such an individual of True Realization becomes himself the “Lord-of-the worlds”.

Love.