Verse 38
Twamaadidevah purushah puraanas
Twamasya vishwasya param nidhaanam;
Vettaasi vedyam cha param cha dhaama
Twayaa tatam vishwamanantaroopa.
Thou art the primal God, the ancient Purusha, the supreme refuge of this
universe, the knower, the knowable and the supreme abode. By Thee is the
universe pervaded, O Being of infinite forms!
After experiencing the cosmic vision in its
true spirit, Arjuna prostrates and declares this verse on the basis
of his personal subjective experience.
YOU ARE THE PRIMAL GOD - Tvam ādidevaḥ -
“The Original Ancient one, the God of gods, Thou art.”
Puruṣaḥ purāṇas: “The ancient Purusha,
Purushottama, Narayana.”
The Self or Brahman is the Supreme Creator.
risen. The Self, conditioned by Its own creative urge, plays the part of the
Creator.
YOU ARE THE SUPREME ABODE OF THE UNIVERSE
-The entire Viswa is housed in the Lord, and therefore, it is said that the Lord
is the Abode for the Universe.
The term Viswa includes the entire
world of perceptions and the whole field of emotions and the total realms of
thought that we, as intelligent individuals, experience in all our lives. This
totality of the world of experience through the body, mind and intellect
together is indicated by the term Vishwa.
THOU ART THE KNOWER AND THE KNOWABLE --- Vettāsi vedyaṁ ca paraṁ ca dhāma: “Thou knowest everything,
whatever is to be known, because in Thy knowing Thyself, everything has already
been known.
The Supreme Abode is already
attained in the vision of Thy Great Form. Thou art all things, spreading
Thyself everywhere, O Visva Anantarupa, O All-formed One!”
The Awareness in us is the Factor that
completes all our experiences as realities. If the Light of Awareness were not
to illumine the inert world-of-matter, no knowledge would have been possible,
and therefore, the Principle of Consciousness, represented here as Lord
Krishna, the Charioteer --- is described here as the Knower.
The knower referred here is that pure
consciousness which illumines the entire creation
The knowable referred here is not any object
to be known but the supreme goal of human birth, the realization of SELF.
Hence, in this context, it is explained that
the Lord / SELF is that which illumines the creation as much as it illumines a
jiva, to proceed in the path of Spiritual Sadhana to ultimately realize that
the goal which had to be attained, the knowable, is He himself (He the pure
self, not He the body mind ego)
YOU PERVADE THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE OF FORMS --- Tvam asya viśvasya paraṁ nidhānam: “The very support and life-breath of this universe,
Thou art. Who can know You except Yourself?”
The superimpositions cannot exist apart from
the Substratum upon which they are being perceived.
A post or a pillar mistaken
as ghost, but the truth is that without the substratum Post, no one
has the possibility to mistake it as a ghost.
Waves, when they rise, may be taken as real,
but for the waves to rise, stay and recede and die, the substratum
is water / ocean.
The Self is the Substratum on which the
multitude of the world-of-plurality is visualized, and therefore, it is rightly
said that "HE PERVADES ALL."
This is only a repetition of the great
Upanishadic Truth that "the Infinite pervades all, and nothing pervades
It."
Love.
