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TEXT 12-13 arjuna uvaca
ahus tvam rsayah sarve
SYNONYMS  arjunah uvaca--Arjuna
said; param--supreme; brahma--truth; param--supreme;
dhama--sustenance;
pavitram--purest; paramam--supreme;
bhavan--Yourself;
purusam--personality; sasvatam--original;
divyam--transcendental;
adi-devam--original Lord; ajam--unborn;
vibhum--greatest;
ahuh--say; tvam--unto You; rsayah--sages;
sarve--all;
deva-rsih--the sage among the demigods; naradah--Narada;
tatha--also;
asitah--Asita; devalah--Devala; vyasah--Vyasa;
svayam--personally;
ca--also; eva--certainly; bravisi--explaining;
me--unto
me.
TRANSLATION Arjuna said:
You are the Supreme Brahman, the ultimate, the supreme abode and purifier,
the Absolute Truth and the eternal divine person. You are the primal God,
transcendental and original, and You are the unborn and all-pervading beauty.
All the great sages such as Narada, Asita, Devala, and Vyasa proclaim this
of You, and now You Yourself are declaring it to me.
PURPORT In these two
verses the Supreme Lord gives a chance to the modern philosopher, for here
it is clear that the Supreme is different from the individual soul. Arjuna,
after hearing the essential four verses of Bhagavad-gita in this
chapter, became completely free from all doubts and accepted Krsna as the
Supreme Personality of Godhead. He at once boldly declares, "You are Parambrahma,
the Supreme Personality of Godhead." And previously Krsna states that He
is the originator of everything and everyone. Every demigod and every human
being is dependent on Him. Men and demigods, out of ignorance, think that
they are absolute and independent of the Supreme Lord Krsna. That ignorance
is removed perfectly by the discharge of devotional service. This is already
explained in the previous verse by the Lord. Now by His grace, Arjuna is
accepting Him as the Supreme Truth, in concordance with the Vedic injunction.
It is not because Krsna is an intimate friend of Arjuna that he is flattering
Him by calling Him the Supreme Personality of Godhead, the Absolute Truth.
Whatever Arjuna says in these two verses is confirmed by Vedic truth. Vedic
injunctions affirm that only one who takes to devotional service to the
Supreme Lord can understand Him, whereas others cannot. Each and every
word of this verse spoken by Arjuna is confirmed by Vedic injunction.
In the Kena
Upanisad it is stated that the Supreme Brahman is the rest for everything,
and Krsna has already explained that everything is resting on Him. The
Mundaka
Upanisad confirms that the Supreme Lord, in whom everything is resting,
can be realized only by those who engage constantly in thinking of Him.
This constant thinking of Krsna is smaranam, one of the methods
of devotional service. It is only by devotional service to Krsna that one
can understand his position and get rid of this material body.
In the Vedas
the Supreme Lord is accepted as the purest of the pure. One who understands
that Krsna is the purest of the pure can become purified from all sinful
activities. One cannot be disinfected from sinful activities unless he
surrenders unto the Supreme Lord. Arjuna's acceptance of Krsna as the supreme
pure complies with the injunctions of Vedic literature. This is also confirmed
by great personalities, of whom Narada is the chief.
Krsna is
the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and one should always meditate upon
Him and enjoy one's transcendental relationship with Him. He is the supreme
existence. He is free from bodily needs, birth and death. Not only does
Arjuna confirm this, but all the Vedic literatures, the Puranas
and histories. In all Vedic literatures Krsna is thus described, and the
Supreme Lord Himself also says in the Fourth Chapter, "Although I am unborn,
I appear on this earth to establish religious principles." He is the supreme
origin; He has no cause, for He is the cause of all causes, and everything
is emanating from Him. This perfect knowledge can be had by the grace of
the Supreme Lord.
Here Arjuna
expresses himself through the grace of Krsna. If we want to understand
Bhagavad-gita,
we should accept the statements in these two verses. This is called the
parampara system, acceptance of the disciplic succession. Unless
one is in the disciplic succession, he cannot understand
Bhagavad-gita.
It is not possible by so-called academic education. Unfortunately those
proud of their academic education, despite so much evidence in Vedic literatures,
stick to their obstinate conviction that Krsna is an ordinary person.
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