Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya 127

Srimad Bhagavad Gita -Ramanujacharya

Chapter-4 Jñāna Vibhāga Yogaḥ

arjuna uvāca aparaṃ bhavato janma paraṃ janma vivasvataḥ | katham etad vijānīyāṃ tvam ādau proktavān iti || 4 || Arjuna said: 4. Your birth was recent, and the birth of Vivasvan long ago. How then am I to understand that you taught it in the beginning? Commentary According to the regular calculation of time, Krishna's birth was indeed later, contemporaneous with Arjuna's. And the birth of Vivasvān was at an earlier aeon, reckoned as twenty-eight cycles of units of four Yugas each . How can Arjuna accept the truth of His statement that He taught it in the beginning? Now, there is no contradiction here, for it was quite possible that Sri Krishna had taught Vivasvān in a former birth. The memory of what was done in former births is quite natural for highly evolved persons. This should not be taken to mean that Arjuna does not know that the son of Vasudeva, the speaker, is the Lord of all, because he says later on: — 'You are the Supreme Brahman, the Supreme Light and the. Supreme Purifier. All the seers proclaim You as the eternal Divine Puruṣa, the Primal Lord, unborn and allpervading So also proclaim the divine sage Nārada, Asita, Devala and Vyāsa. You Yourself also are saying this to me'