Bhagavad Gita -Srila Prabhupada 318

Shrimad Bhagavad Gita As It Is -Shri Shrimad A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

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Knowledge of the Absolute
Chapter 7: Verse-7

The impersonalist puts more stress on the word arüpam. But this arüpam is not impersonal. It indicates the transcendental form of eternity, bliss and knowledge as described in the Brahma-saàhitä quoted above. Other verses in the Svetäçvatara Upaniñad [1] substantiate this as follows:

 
vedäham etam purusam mahäntam äditya-varnam tamasah parastät
tam eva viditväti mrtyum eti nänyah panthä vidyate ’yanäya
yasmät param näparam asti kincid yasmän näniyo no jyäyo ’sti kincit
vrksa iva stabdho divi tisthaty ekas tenedam pürnam purusena sarvam.

“I know that Supreme Personality of Godhead who is transcendental to all material conceptions of darkness. Only he who knows Him can transcend the bonds of birth and death. There is no way for liberation other than this knowledge of that Supreme Person. “There is no truth superior to that Supreme Person, because He is the supermost. He is smaller than the smallest, and He is greater than the greatest. He is situated as a silent tree, and He illumines the transcendental sky, and as a tree spreads its roots, He spreads His extensive energies.” From these verses one concludes that the Supreme Absolute Truth is the Supreme Personality of Godhead, who is all-pervading by His multi-energies, both material and spiritual.



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References

  1. 3.8–9

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