Sanskrit · Devanagari
अधिभूतं क्षरो भावः पुरुषश्चाधिदैवतम्। अधियज्ञोऽहमेवात्र देहे देहभृतां वर ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
adhibhūtaṃ kṣaro bhāvaḥ puruṣaścādhidaivatam adhiyajño.ahamevātra dehe dehabhṛtāṃ vara
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Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882The Adhibhūta is all perishable things. The Adhidaivata is the (primal) being. And the Adhiyajña O best of embodied (beings)! is I myself in this body. And he who leaves this body and departs (from this world) remembering me in (his) last moments comes into my essence.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।8.4।। --,अधिभूतं प्राणिजातम् अधिकृत्य भवतीति। कोऽसौ क्षरः क्षरतीति क्षरः विनाशी भावः यत्किञ्चित् जनिमत् वस्तु इत्यर्थः। पुरुषः पूर्णम् अनेन सर्वमिति पुरि शयनात् वा पुरुषः आदित्यान्तर्गतो हिण्यगर्भः सर्वप्राणिकरणानाम् अनुग्राहकः सः अधिदैवतम्। अधियज्ञः सर्वयज्ञाभिमानिनी विष्ण्वाख्या देवता यज्ञो वै विष्णुः इति श्रुतेः। स हि विष्णुः अहमेव अत्र अस्मिन् देहे यो यज्ञः तस्य अहम् अधियज्ञः यज्ञो हि देहनिर्वर्त्यत्वेन देहसमवायी इति देहाधिकरणो भवति देहभृतां वर।।
4fd8428b1b23…Rāmānuja
8.4 The perishable existences which have been declared as fit to be known by the seekers of wealth, power etc., form the Adhibhuta. They are superior material entities that remain in ether or space and other elements. They are the evolutes of material elements and are perishable in their nature. They are also of the nature of sound, touch etc., supported by their basic subtle elements but different from, and finer than, ordinary sound etc., and are of many kinds. Sound, touch, form, taste and smell on this kind, which are manifold and rooted in their several bases, are to be gained by the seekers after prosperity and should be contemplated upon by them. Adhidaivata connotes Purusa. The Purusa is superior to divinities like Indra, Prajapati and others, and is the experiencer of sound etc., which are different from, and superior to, the multitude of enjoyments of Indra, Prajapati etc. The condition of being such an enjoyer is to be contemplated upon by the seekers after prosperity, as the end to be attained. I alone am connoted by the term Adhiyajna (sacrifice). Adhiyajna denotes one who is propitiated in sacrifices. Indra and others, to whom sacrifices are made, form My body. I dwell as their Self and I alone am the object of worship by sacrifice. In this manner the three groups of alified devotees should contemplate at the time of the practice of periodical and occasional rituals like the great sacrificies. This is also common to all the three groups of devotees.
dd6161857781…Swami Sivananda
8.4 अधिभूतम् Adhibhuta? क्षरः perishable? भावः nature? पुरुषः the soul? च and? अधिदैवतम् Adhidaivata? अधियज्ञः Adhiyajna? अहम् I? एव alone? अत्र here? देहे in the body? देहभृताम् of the embodied? वर O best.Commentary Adhibhuta the perishable nature the changing universe of the five elements with all its objects all the material objects everything that has birth the changing world of names and forms.Adhidaiva Purusha literally means that by which everything is filled (pur to fill). It may also mean that which lies in this body. It is Hiranyagarbha or the universal soul or the sustainer from whom all living beings derive their sensepower. It is the witnessing consciousness.Adhiyajna Consciousness the presiding deity of sacrifice. The Lord of all works and sacrifice isVishnu. Lord Vishnu identifies Himself with all sacrificial acts. Yajna is verily Vishnu? says the Taittiriya Samhita of the Veda. Lord Krishna says? I am the presiding deity in all acts of sacrifice in the body. All sacrifices are done by the body and so it may be said that they rest in the body.
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