Sanskrit · Devanagari
ज्ञानयज्ञेन चाप्यन्ये यजन्तो मामुपासते। एकत्वेन पृथक्त्वेन बहुधा विश्वतोमुखम् ॥
Sanskrit · IAST
jñānayajñena cāpyanye yajanto māmupāsate ekatvena pṛthaktvena bahudhā viśvatomukham
English witness
Kashinath Trimbak Telang, 1882they worship me, being always devoted. And others again, offering up the sacrifice of knowledge, worship me as one, as distinct, and as all-pervading in numerous forms.
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Śaṅkarācārya
।।9.15।। -- --,ज्ञानयज्ञेन ज्ञानमेव भगवद्विषयं यज्ञः तेन ज्ञानयज्ञेन? यजन्तः पूजयन्तः माम् ईश्वरं च अपि अन्ये अन्याम् उपासनां परित्यज्य उपासते। तच्च ज्ञानम् -- एकत्वेन एकमेव परं ब्रह्म इति परमार्थदर्शनेन यजन्तः उपासते। केचिच्च पृथक्त्वेन, आदित्यचन्द्रादिभेदेन स एव भगवान् विष्णुः अवस्थितः इति उपासते। केचित् बहुधा अवस्थितः स एव भगवान् सर्वतोमुखः विश्वरुपः इति तं विश्वरूपं सर्वतोमुखं बहुधा बहुप्रकारेण उपासते।।यदि बहुभिः प्रकारैः उपासते? कथं त्वामेव उपासते इति? अत आह --,
2baf9be64660…Rāmānuja
9.15 Other high-minded persons worship Me by singing My names, etc., already described; and they also perform the sacrifice called knowledge. They worship Me, who, by being 'characterised by diversity in various ways' in the form of the cosmos, is a multiform, namely, having all entities as modes (Prakaras) and also as One (the Prakari). The purport is this: The Lord Vasudeva alone, having the body comprising animate and inanimate entities in an extremely subtle form (in the state of Cosmic dissolution) incapable of distinctness by name and form, resolves by His unfailing true will power: 'May I become embodied in gross animate and inanimate entities, distinguished variously by name and form.' He alone then abides, with the variegated cosmos as His body, comprising gods, animals, men and immobile things. They worship Me by contemplating on Me thus. Therefore Sri Krsna declares: 'I, having the universe for My body, alone abide'.
7678858f7349…Swami Sivananda
9.15 ज्ञानयज्ञेन with the wisdomsacrifice? च and? अपि also? अन्ये others? यजन्तः sacrificing? माम् Me?,उपासते worhsip? एकत्वेन as one? पृथक्त्वेन as different? बहुधा in various ways? विश्वतोमुखम् the Allfaced.Commentary Others too sacrificing by the wisdomsacrifice? i.e.? seeing the Self in all? adore Me the One and the manifold? present everywhere. They regard all the forms they see as the forms of God? all sounds they hear as the names of God. They give all objects they eat as offerings unto the Lord in vaious ways.Some adore Him with the knowledge that there is only one Reality? the Supreme Being Who is ExistenceKnowledgeBliss. They identify themselves with the Truth or Brahman. This is the Monistic view of the Vedantins. Some worship Him making a distinction between the Lord and themselves with the attitude of master and servant. This is the view of the Dualistic School of philosophy. Some worship Him with the knowledge that He exists as the various divinities? Brahma? Vishnu? Rudra? Siva? etc.Visvatomukham Others worship Him who has assumed all the manifold forms in the world? Who exists in all the forms as the Allfaced (the one Lord exists in all the different forms with His face on all sides? as it were). (Cf.IV.33)
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