Sanskrit · Devanagari
कस्माच्च ते न नमेरन्महात्मन् गरीयसे ब्रह्मणोऽप्यादिकर्त्रे। अनन्त देवेश जगन्निवास त्वमक्षरं सदसत्तत्परं यत् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
kasmācca te na nameranmahātman garīyase brahmaṇo.apyādikartre ananta deveśa jagannivāsa tvamakṣaraṃ sadasattatparaṃ yat
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882and that all the assemblages of Siddhas bow down,(to you). And why O high-souled one! should they not bow down to you (who are) greater than Brahman and first cause? O infinite lord of gods! O you pervading the universe! you are the indestructible, that which is, that which is not, and what is beyond them.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।11.37।। --,कस्माच्च हेतोः ते तुभ्यं न नमेरन् नमस्कुर्युः हे महात्मन्? गरीयसे गुरुतराय यतः ब्रह्मणः हिरण्यगर्भस्य अपि आदिकर्ता कारणम् अतः तस्मात् आदिकर्त्रे। कथम् एते न नमस्कुर्युः अतः हर्षादीनां नमस्कारस्य च स्थानं त्वं अर्हः विषयः इत्यर्थः। हे अनन्त देवेश हे जगन्निवास त्वम् अक्षरं तत् परम्? यत् वेदान्तेषु श्रूयते। किं तत् सदसत् इति। सत् विद्यमानम्? असत् च यत्र नास्ति इति बुद्धिः ते उपधानभूते सदसती यस्य अक्षरस्य? यद्द्वारेण सदसती इति उपचर्यते। परमार्थतस्तु सदसतोः परं तत् अक्षरं यत् अक्षरं वेदविदः वदन्ति। तत् त्वमेव? न अन्यत् इति अभिप्रायः।।पुनरपि स्तौति --,
ec3df938b8ab…Rāmānuja
11.37 O Mahatman, for what reason should Brahma and others not bow down to You, who are great and are the First Being and the Creator even of Brahma, namely, Hiranyagarbha? O Infinite, O Lord of the gods, O You who have the universe for Your abode! You are the 'Aksara'. What does not perish, is the Aksara, here, the 'principle of individual self'; for the individual self does not perish as established in Sruti passages: 'The intelligent self is not born, nor dies' (Ka. U., 1.2.18). You alone are the 'existent and the non-existent,' the principle of Prakrti, in its condition as effect and in its condition as cause. This is denoted by the terms 'Sat' (existent) and 'Asat' (non-existent). You alone are the state of effect denoted by the term 'Sat', which is the state of diversification by names and forms, and also the state of cause, denoted by the tetm 'Asat', which is the state incapable of such divisions and diversities. 'What is beyond both' - what is beyond Prakrti and the individual self associated with the Prakrti, as also from the principle of liberated selves who are different from those associated with Prakrti, i.e., bound souls. You alone are that also. Therefore:
a230160ada59…Swami Sivananda
11.37 कस्मात् why? च and? ते they? न not? नमेरन् may prostrate? महात्मन् O greatsouled One? गरीयसे greater? ब्रह्मणः of Brahma? अपि also? आदिकर्त्रे the primal cause? अनन्त O Infinite Being? देवेश O Lord of the gods? जगन्निवास O Abode of the universe? त्वम् Thou? अक्षरम् Imperishable? सत् the Being? असत् nonbeing? तत् That? परम् the Supreme? यत् which.Commentary The Lord is Mahatma. He is greater than all else. He is the imperishable. So He is the proper object of worship? love and delight.That which exists in the three periods of time is Sat. Brahman is Sat. That which does not exist in the three periods of time is Asat. This world is Asat. This body is Asat.The words Sat and Asat mean here the manifested and the unmanifested which form the adjuncts of the Akshara (imperishable). In reality the Akshara transcends both these. The word Akshara is applied in the Gita sometimes to the Unmanifest (Nature) and sometimes to the Supreme Being.Ananta is He Who is free from the three kinds of limitations (of time? space and thing) which have already been explained.Arjuna again praises the Lord thus
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