THE HOLY GITA, CHAPTER 10, VERSE 12, VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 10

VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS:

VERSE NUMBER 12

Text in Transliteration:

                            arjuna uvaacha

param brhma param dhaama

   pavitram paramam bhavaan

purusham saasvatam divyam

   aadidevam ajam vibhum

Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:

arjuna uvaacha = Arjuna said:

param = supreme; brahma = Brahman; param = supreme; dhaama = abode; pavitram = purifier; paramam = supreme; bhavaan = thou; purusham = Purusha; saasvatam = eternal; divyam = divine; aadidevam = primeval God; ajam = unborn; vibhum = omnipresent

Text in English:

                    Arjuna said:

You are the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Abode, the Supreme Purifier, the Eternal, Divine Purusha, the Primeval Deity, the Unborn, the Omnipresent.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

Param Brahman is the Supreme Brahman,  Nirguna Nirupaadhika Brahman, the pure consciousness.

Apara Brahman is Iswara, Saguna Brahman, the Reality with all attributes and glory.

Param Dhaama is the Substratum of everything manifest and unmanifest, the Supreme Abode.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

Param Brahma: The highest Self. The word Param indicates the pure and attributeless Absolute, free from the limiting adjuncts. It is Satchidananda Brahman. The ‘inferior Brahman’ is the Brahman with qualities (Saguna) or Ishvara, Brahman with the limiting adjuncts or the chosen object of meditation by the devotees.

Param Dhama means Param Tejah or the supreme light. From the Creator down to the blade of grass the Supreme Being is the support or substratum. Therefore He is known as the supreme abode.

Adideva: The primeval God or the original God Who existed before all other gods. This God is Para Brahman Itself. It is self-luminous.

Pavitram Paramam: Supreme purifier. The sacred rivers and holy places of pilgrimage can remove only the sins; but Para Brahman can destroy all sins and ignorance, the root-cause of all sins. Therefore Para Brahman or the Supreme Self is the supreme purifier.

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