The Spiritual Import of the Mahabharata and the Bhagavad gita : Ch-10. Part-12.

Chapter 10: The Imperishable Among All that is Perishable :


Part-12.



Purusas cadhidaivatam : The purusha that the slokam speaks of here is the presiding divinity behind all individuals.

Sometimes in modern language it is called the Overself, or in Sanskrit terminology it is called the kutasthachaitanya.

Our deepest essence, which presides over us, is the purusha, God speaking through man and enlivening even our intellects and enabling us to exist, to be conscious and be happy.



Adhiyajnoham evatra : The incarnate God speaks, “I am the adhiyajna.”

When God incarnates Himself, not necessarily or merely as Krishna or Rama or such incarnations, but any kind of incarnation, the whole universe is filled with the powers of God, which are all capable of being regarded as incarnations in their own ways.

What else can be there in the world but God, and who can be doing anything here but He?

In that sense, how can we say that He is not present here even today as an incarnation?

So, “I as the incarnation,” says Sri Krishna in the Bhagavadgita, “stand here as the adhiyajna, the receiver of all the fruits of action.”
Sarva-deva-namaskaram keshavam pratiga chhati: Any prostration offered to anyone goes ultimately to that Supreme Being, as all rivers go to the ocean.


Swami Krishnananda

To be continued  ....