Srimad Bhagavad-Gita : Chapter-14, Slokam - 27.

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Sunday, July 19, 2020. 4:49.AM.
Srimad  Bhagavad-Gita :
Chapter-14. ( GUNA-TRAYA-VIBHAGA-YOGAM )
Slokam-27.
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Slokam :

"Brahmano  hi  pratisthaham  amrtasyavyayasya  ca,

sasvatasya  ca  dharmasya   sukhasyaikantikasya  ca."
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Translation :

hi  =  why  because;

aham  =  I  am  Paramatma,  the  Brahmam;

brahmanah  =  the  brahmam  that  is  the  entire  jivatma-s;

avyayasya    amrtasya  ca  =   of  the  imperishable  and   immortal  also;

 sasvatasya  dharmasya  ca  =  of  the  sanatana  dharma  also;

ikantikasya  sukhasya  ca  =  of  the  ultimate  happiness  also;

pratisthaha    =  ( all  the  above  said  are  )  the  seat/ testing  place.
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Discourse :

In this slokam the brahman or spiritual substrtatum pervading all existence refers to Sri Laxsmi, the goddess of fortune. This is what is being clarified by the words brahmano hi. As one attains Sri Laxsmi one attains the Supreme Lord as she is never separated from Him. So by her grace one attains the immortal, eternal, imperishable state of the Lord Krishna. The word aikantikanye means the ultimate and denotes the happiness one experiences in communion with the Supreme Lord. Thus the manner of attaining Him has been explained.

Here the reason is revealed by Lord Krishna for what He proclaimed in the previous verse. That He, Himself is the pratistha or source of the brahman in concentrated form. In the same way the sun is concentrated light. Likewise He is imperishable, immortal and eternal. He is dharma or the eternal religious principles which are the means to moksa or liberation from material existence and freedom from samsara the perpetual cycle of birth and death. The Supreme Lord Krishna is the ultimate embodiment of pure, absolute, transcendental ananda or bliss. As His devotees only desire association with Him, they inevitably attain His nature and association with Him.

So in conclusion the Supreme Lord Krishna has declared that the ocean of samsara results from the three gunas or modes of material nature which are all subservient to Him. The ocean referred to is in the form of the 43,200,000 or 43 million and 200 thousand lifetimes in one day of Brahma that all all jivas or embodied beings who have not achieved moksa are subjected to before partial dissolution of creation dissolves them back into pradhana or the cosmic absolute. In this chapter the Supreme Lord Himself has confirmed that His devotees easily cross over this ocean due to their exclöuisve devotion unto Him.

Chapter-14. ENDS.
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Next : Chapter-15.

To be continued  ...


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