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.
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.
