Gita : Ch-13, Slo-14, Discussion-1.

27/11/2017

Chapter-13.  ( Kshetra-kshetrajna-vibhaga-yogam )

Slokam- 14.

sarvatah   panipadam   tat  sarvatokshisiromukham,

 sarvatah  srutimalloke  sarvamavrtya  tishtati.


 Word by meaning:-

sarvatah   pani-padam  = hands  and  legs  everywhere;

sarvatah  akshi-sirah-mukham  =  and  eyes,  heads,  faces  ( mouths),  everywhere;

sarvatah  srutimat  tat  =  ears  everywhere,  withh  all  these  (  as  mentioned  above  two  lines ),  the  'Brahmam';

loke  sarvam  avrtya  =  covering  everywhere  in  the  world  ( spread  in  all  things,  all  over  the  world );

tishtati  =  exists.


SUM :-(Everywhere are His hands and legs, His eyes and faces, and He hears everything. In this way the Supersoul exists.)

Discussion-1.

 Lord Krishna defines the qualities of Parabrahman the Supreme Lord as the source of the brahman or spiritual substratum pervading all existence beginning with sarvatah pani padam meaning with hands and feet everywhere. The Svetasvatara Upanisad III.IX states: Without feet or hands He is swift and seizes. He sees without eyes and hears without the ears. Without material organs the Supreme Lord sees on all sides and hears all things within and without and grasps from all directions. The Supreme Lord being of transcendental nature endowed with supra-extraordinary potency is performing all actions of coming, going, grasping, seizing, hearing, seeing although without hands and eyes and ears and feet, etc. The jiva or embodied being who realises atma-tattva or the reality of their soul and achieves moksa or liberation from material existence, they will ultimately attain the association of the Supreme Lord and experience this state as well.

The Mundaka Upanisad III.I.III states: When an aspirant perceives the source of the brahman or spiritual substratum pervading all existence as the brilliantly effulgent Supreme Lord, then realising the ultimate truth such a one becomes pristine and pure casting off all dualities such as what is good and what is evil and attains direct communion with the Ultimate Consciousness and the Supreme Lord. Hence all those liberated beings who have attained such communion to the Supreme Lord are also known to be performing actions like Him irrespective of whether or not they have the actual material organs.

Through the auspices of the atma or immotal soul and the brahman the Parabrahman pervades with knowledge all objects of the ksetra-jna. When ignorance has been completely removed and nescience has been transcended the unlimited aspect of the atma becomes manifest and the quality of knowledge becomes unlimited and the soul becomes endowed with an all pervasive quality of omniscience including past and future. Only then is the atma spoken of as being equated to Parabrahman; otherwise it is not possible. The same is declared by Vedavyasa in his treatise Vedanta Sutras II.III.XXVIII beginning yavadatam bhavitva ca meaning: Proof that the atma is the consciousness factor is that cognition is only present as long as the atma is present; before self realisation it is obscured and after enlightenment it is perceived.

To be continued ...