THE HOLY GITA--CHAPTER 10, VERSE 20, VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS

THE HOLY GITA

CHAPTER NUMBER 10

VIBHUTI YOGA OR THE YOGA OF DIVINE MANIFESTATIONS:

VERSE NUMBER 20

Text in Transliteration:

aham aatmaa gudaakesa sarva bhootaasayathitah:

aham aadis cha madhyam cha bhootaanaam anta eva cha

Sanskrit words and phrases and their meaning:

aham = I; aatmaa = the Self; gudaakesa = O Gudakesa; sarva bhoota aasyasthitah: = seated in the hearts of all beings; aham = I; aadih: = beginning; cha = and; madhyam = the middle; cha = and; bhootaanaam = of (all) beings; antah; = the end; eva = even; cha = and.

I am the Self, O Gudakesa, seated in the hearts of all beings. I am the beginning, the middle and also the end of all beings.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

The Lord is the innermost Self in all beings, which are all His gross manifestation. The effect is nothing but the cause in another form. The Lord is the material as well as the efficient cause of the universe. Gudakesa is he who has conquered sleep. The one awakened in the Self can cognize the fact that Iswara is putting on the appearance of the visible universe.

SRIMAT SWAMI RAMAKRISHNA AS QUOTED BY SRIMAT SWAMI CHIDBHAVANANDA:

It is my Cosmic Mother who has become everything. She of omnipotence has become the universe and the beings in it. She reveals Herself as the body, the intellect, the virtuous path and the spiritual pursuit. Sakti and Brahman are one. In the manifest state She is Sakti and in the absolute state, Brahman.

COMMENTARY BY DR.S.RADHAKRISHNAN:

The world is a living whole, a vast interconnectedness, a cosmic harmony inspired and sustained by the One Supreme.

COMMENTARY BY SRIMAT SWAMI SIVANANDA:

O Gudakesa! I am the soul (Pratyagatma) which exists in the hearts of all beings and I am also the source or origin, the middle or stay, and the end of all created beings. I am the birth, the life and the death of all beings. Meditate on Me as the innermost Self.

Gudakesa means either ‘conqueror of sleep’ or ‘thick-haired’.

He who is able to meditate on the Self with Abheda Bhavana (attitude of non-duality), is a qualified aspirant (Adhikari) of the first class. He who is not able to meditate on the Self should think of the Lord in those things which are mentioned below. This type of meditation is for the aspirants of the middle class.

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