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TEXT 15 sarvendriya-gunabhasam
SYNONYMS  sarva--all;
indriya--senses; guna--qualities; abhasam--original
source; sarva--all; indriya--senses; vivarjitam--being
without; asaktam--without attachment; sarva-bhrt--maintainer
of everyone; ca--also; eva--certainly; nirgunam--without
material qualities; guna-bhoktr--simultaneously master of the gunas;
ca--also.
TRANSLATION The Supersoul
is the original source of all senses, yet He is without senses. He is unattached,
although He is the maintainer of all living beings. He transcends the modes
of nature, and at the same time He is the master of all modes of material
nature.
PURPORT The Supreme
Lord, although the source of all the senses of the living entities, doesn't
have material senses like they have. Actually, the individual souls have
spiritual senses, but in conditioned life they are covered with the material
elements, and therefore the sense activities are exhibited through matter.
The Supreme Lord's senses are not so covered. His senses are transcendental
and are therefore called nirguna. Guna means the material
modes, but His senses are without material covering. It should be understood
that His senses are not exactly like ours. Although He is the source of
all our sensual activities, He has His transcendental senses which are
uncontaminated. This is very nicely explained in the Svetasvatara Upanisad
in the verse: sarvatah pani-padam. The Supreme Personality of Godhead
has no hands which are materially contaminated, but He has His hands and
accepts whatever sacrifice is offered to Him. That is the distinction between
the conditioned soul and the Supersoul. He has no material eyes, but He
has eyes--otherwise how could He see? He sees everything, past, present
and future. He lives within the heart of the living being, and He knows
what we have done in the past, what we are doing now, and what is awaiting
us in the future. This is also confirmed in Bhagavad-gita: He knows
everything, but no one knows Him. It is said that the Supreme Lord has
no legs like us, but He can travel throughout space because He has spiritual
legs. In other words, the Lord is not impersonal; He has His eyes, legs,
hands and everything else, and because we are part and parcel of the Supreme
Lord we also have these things. But His hands, legs, eyes and senses are
not contaminated by material nature.
Bhagavad-gita
also confirms that when the Lord appears He appears as He is by His internal
potency. He is not contaminated by the material energy because He is the
Lord of material energy. In the Vedic literature we find that His whole
embodiment is spiritual. He has His eternal form called sac-cid-ananda-vigraha.
He is full of all opulence. He is the proprietor of all wealth and the
owner of all energy. He is the most intelligent and is full of knowledge.
These are some of the symptoms of the Supreme Personality of Godhead. He
is maintainer of all living entities and the witness of all activity. As
far as we can understand from Vedic literature, the Supreme Lord is always
transcendental. Although we do not see His head, face, hands, or legs,
He has them, and when we are elevated to the transcendental situation then
we can see the Lord's form. Due to materially contaminated senses, we cannot
see His form. Therefore the impersonalists who are still materially affected
cannot understand the Personality of Godhead.
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