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Chapter 12
Bhakti Yoga
Here the reference is not to the Lord because earlier it is mentioned दैवमन्येऽपरे, where दैव means Sri Vishnu and kma - means action. Beginning with “Then, there was neither non-Existence nor Existence, neither superior elements nor the inferior one” it is concluded that “There existed in the beginning only obscurity (tama)”. And also “obscurity (tama) alone was the unmanifest, ever renewable, unperceivable, none other than Prakriti”, “She being, verily, inconceivable, is without any distinctive marks”.
Similarly in Moksha Dharma - “Being supported by the attributes of Sriman Narayana and ever new, she is inaccessible to the senses. Beyond the mind, unborn, existing even after desolation, are her special subsidiary attributes. Non-injury, unattached, without hatred, immutable, without loss of form, existing in everything, performing every action, she is ever exists, symbolizing the principles of tama (obscurity)”. “Without any beginning, born out of tama (obscurity), symbolizing non-activity beyond the scope of reasoning, unknowable, she is dormant, as it were, in all events”, thus in Manu Smriti. Sri Krishna says later kootastho‟kshara uchyate - immutable is the one abiding within. That which is abiding within in the space is , कूटस्थ. “She is known as kootastha because she is abiding in space”, thus in Rigveda. “She is all pervading, unmovable, progenitor of the universe, immutable, supporter of the universe, without the attributes of raja etc”, thus in Gaupavana section of Samaveda.
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