Commentary on the Bhagavadgita : 30- Swami Krishnananda.
================================================================ ================================================================ Saturday, April 23, 2022. 21:00. Discourse 43: The Fifteenth Chapter Concludes – The Greatest Secret Revealed : POST-30 ================================================================ Uttamaḥ puruṣas tvanyaḥ (15.17): There is a third something. The Supreme Purusha is different from both the purusha and prakriti mentioned. He is called Paramatma, the Supreme Self. We may call the purusha of the Sankhya as a kind of self, but this is a Supreme Self which includes every other kind of self, and all selves are subsumed under this universal inclusiveness. Yo lokatrayam āviśya bibhartyavyaya īśvaraḥ: That Supreme Paramatman, the all-pervading Self enveloping the three worlds, supports the three worlds as the Lord of all. In the state of Ishvara or Hiranyagarbha, there are no subjects and objects, and there is no seeing and seen. The seer-seen context ar...